Chris Harn
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Chris Harn (b. 1973) was a computer programmer and Autotote employee in Newark, Delaware who pled guilty in 2002 and was sentenced on February 19, 2003 for the "Breeders' Cup Scandal", along with accomplices Derrick Davis and Glen DaSilva.
Harn admitted to placing parimutuel wagers through a computerized telephone wagering system under wagering accounts established by his accomplices, and after the horse races were run, using his programmer's access to change the wagers in Autotote's system to reflect the winning horses. In the scheme, Harn's accomplices agreed to redeem the fraudulent winning wagers and share the proceeds with him.
In his plea agreement, Harn also admitted to searching Autotote's system for the serial numbers of uncashed paramutuel tickets that were about to expire, printing duplicate tickets, and giving them to Davis and DaSilva to cash at various horse tracks. The pair used automated redemption machines to avoid suspicion. In this scheme, Harn only used low valued tickets to minimize the likelihood that the legitimate owner of a ticket would later attempt to redeem it, which would have launched an investigation. This scheme was successfully carried out for about one year and was never detected.
Harn, Davis and DaSilva met at Drexel University in the early 1990s when all three were members of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.
Chris Harn's story was portrayed in the Court TV program “Masterminds” and in the Game Show Network program “Anything to Win”.
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