The North Carolina man who reportedly smuggled fake chips into a Borgata poker tournament is facing more charges after authorities found equipment for bootlegging DVDs along with thousands of pirated movies in his home.

Christian Lusardi (pictured), 42, first came to the attention of New Jersey gaming officials after $2.7 million in counterfeit tournament chips was discovered flushed down the toilet in a Harrah’s hotel room registered in his name. When hotel managers contacted Borgata, casino security quickly found that 160 bogus chips totaling $800,000 had been added to a tournament in which Lusardi had taken part.

Unbeknownst to Atlantic City gaming officials, Lusardi had already been under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security since 2012, when customs officers intercepted boxes full of equipment from China used to counterfeit DVDs en route to his address.

In a subsequent search of his Fayetteville home, authorities discovered a huge collection of 37,500 pirated DVDs, DVD burners, and packaging equipment to produce even more bootleg movies on an industrial scale, according to a recent affidavit. Lusardi later admitted to sending even more boxes full of equipment to houses of friends and family to avoid arousing suspicion.

Investigators were able to determine that Lusardi made upwards of $1 million selling the DVDs online and at flea markets in Raleigh and Fayetteville.

The Atlantic City bust won’t be Lusardi’s first run-in with the law. In 2008, members of the Narcotics and Suppression Unit served a gambling search warrant at the man’s house and charged 39 visitors with illegal gambling. Many of those in attendance were Fort Bragg soldiers, according to a 2008 report.

Officers seized a trove of gambling paraphernalia, $12,000 in cash, surveillance cameras, and several handguns, and an additional $11,000 was seized from another of his residences. Lusardi and his mother were charged with illegal gambling and alcohol sales.

The court documents issued by Homeland Security also shed more light on Lusardi’s counterfeiting scheme in Atlantic City. Along with the bootlegging equipment, Lusardi was found to have recently received a shipment labeled “plastic chips” from China, further linking him to the Borgata scam.

Lusardi’s girlfriend confirmed that he had received the package from Hong Kong just two weeks before the start of the tournament. He admitted to authorities that he sent the chips to himself in a package addressed to his room at Harrah’s, later hiding the fake chips in bathrooms at Borgata.

In an interview with police, Shaheim Sheridan, an alleged cohort of Lusardi’s, revealed that he had been approached with the idea of the casino scheme at least six months beforehand, but declined to take part. An ex-wife of Lusardi’s told police that the 42-year-old had enlisted the help of his daughter to spray-paint designs on the chips to match the ones issued in the casino’s poker tournaments.

Lusardi told officials that during the Borgata Winter Poker Open, he panicked after thinking that tournament directors had discovered the phony chips. Consequently, he went back to his hotel room and flushed the remaining chips down the toilet.

The move proved to be his undoing. He was quickly apprehended at a Super 8 in Atlantic City and charged with theft and rigging a publicly exhibited contest. He remains in jail on a $300,000 bail, with no option to pay 10% to secure his release. New Jersey State Police said that the investigation into the counterfeiting operation will continue and that no other information can be released at this time.

The tournament in which the fake chips were introduced was later canceled and casino officials have yet to determine how they will remedy the situation.

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