Four men made off with $1.2 million from Bellagio by pulling off a scheme that went undiscovered for months at the casino’s craps tables.
Now, all four of them — all believed to be living in Las Vegas — are on Nevada’s List of Excluded Persons, the so-called “Black Book” listing of people who are not permitted to enter the state’s major casinos.
Mark Branco, 52, James Russell Cooper, 53, Anthony Grant Granito, 58, and Jeffrey Martin, 48, were a part of the notorious Bellagio craps team that was only caught after Nevada Gaming Control Board investigators and MGM Resorts International, Bellagio’s owner, determined that the foursome defied 452 billion-to-1 odds to win as much money as they did.
To prove the group’s involvement in the scheme, investigators reviewed hundreds of hours of surv