The day after the governor proposed a tax on skill games, Pennsylvania's Attorney General announced a guilty plea from a former executive at a national game company.
Ricky Goodling pleaded guilty Tuesday to money laundering for taking payoffs from people involved in distributing and operating skill game machines throughout the state.
AG Dave Sunday says Goodling, while working as Director of National Compliance for Pace-O-Matic, accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from non-compliant distributors and operators instead of reporting them and laundered the payoffs through a fictitious company.
“The defendant pleaded guilty to a very serious charge and took accountability for his conduct, which was fueled by personal greed,” Attorney General Sunday said. “His actions contributed to the disorganized and problematic environment in which these games exist in the Commonwealth.”
Goodling, a retired State Police corporal, will be sentenced on April 28.
He also pleaded guilty to tax crimes in federal court and will be sentenced at a later date.