Video Poker Bad for Owner

Five months in jail is the sentence for Michael Waguespack the owner of Funtime Amusements, a Cumberland County business, who was sentenced thanks to his role in what the US Attorney's office in Raleigh calls an illegal poker operation. Waguespack will follow up that five months in jail with another five months of house arrest. The company sold video poker machines that paid out prizes of $10 per hand. At the time of their manufacture this was legal but then North Carolina law changed, but Funtime Amusements did not stop the sales and operation of said machines.