http://www.metafilter.com/tags/AreliaTaveras Posts tagged with 'AreliaTaveras' at MetaFilter. Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:13:59 -0800 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:13:59 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/69746/Crap%2DNo%2DSnake%2DEyes Arelia Margarita Taveras “made a name for herself representing the families of victims of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_587">American Airlines </a><a href="http://www.ntsb.gov/events/2001/AA587/default.htm">Flight 587</a>, which crashed in New York City's borough of Queens in November 2001, killing 265 people.^{<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/35276">#</a>}^{<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/14912">+</a>} Her practice had 400 clients and earned her $500,000 a year.” She claims that she sought to relieve the pressures of her work by gambling in Atlantic City and Las Vegas over the past few years. She lost $1 million and <a href="http://www.courts.state.ny.us/courts/ad2/calendar/webcal/decisions/2007/D15372.pdf">was disbarred as a result of stealing money from clients</a> [<small>PDF</small>] in order to support her gambling addiction. Taveras also lost her own home and that of her parents (who mortgaged it to support her debt). Taveras owes the IRS $58,000. <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23538746/">In response she has filed a $20 million racketeering lawsuit in federal court against six Atlantic City casinos and one in Las Vegas</a>, “claiming they had a duty to notice her compulsive gambling problem and cut her off.” </mall> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.69746 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:13:59 -0800 Addiction AreliaMargaritaTaveras AreliaTaveras AtlanticCity Gambling GamblingAddiction LasVegas ericb