It has been reported by PokerHelper.com that 88 year old James W. Von Brunn, arrested after killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, was involved in the online gambling business and ran the website, Holy Western Empire.
Von Brunn, a military veteran and white supremacist of Annapolis, Maryland, USA, had anti-semitic and racist declamations on his website and also advertised the online casino, Casino Tropez, on his Holy Western Empire site.
Casino Tropez is an online casino offering many forms of online gambling such as roulette, blackjack, video poker, keno and slot machines. In a notice found on the Casino Tropez website, it states “Casino Tropez is a world-leading online casino with a long-established reputation for providing players with the ultimate online gambling experience. Casino Tropez prides itself with a software delivering over 100 state-of-the-art Las Vegas-style casino games”. It also continues with “Find out why we are awarded as the best internet casino with better odds than any land-based casino. Casino Tropez is committed to each player’s security and safety and absolute fair gaming practices as well as providing around the clock professional customer support”.
Casino Tropez is licensed in Antiqua and Barbuda and is operated from the Philliipines and it is not yet clear what the business relationship was between von Brunn and the online casino.