Jacob Dyson Nickels, the son of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, has agreed to plead guilty to his involvement in a casino-cheating ring accused of stealing millions of dollars by bribing dealers in seven states.
Nickels, 25, was a pit boss at the Nooksack Indian Tribe's Nooksack River Casino in Deming in the summer of 2005 when he accepted $5,000 to introduce one of the ring's alleged conspirators to Levi Seth Mayfield and Kasey James McKillip, according to an indictment unsealed in May.
Mayfield and McKillip allegedly used fake shuffling techniques that allowed San Diego residents George Michael Lee and Tien Duc Vu to bilk the casino out of approximately $90,000. Nickels, Mayfield and McKillip took a cut of Lee and Vu's winnings, according to the indictment.
Vu and Lee are accused of being part of a larger racketeering scheme that stole millions of dollars from 18 casinos across the country.
Nickels, Mayfield and McKillip were charged with one count of conspiracy and four counts of theft of funds from a gaming establishment on Indian lands. Mayfield pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge on July 31 and is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 7. McKillip's attorney made a motion to dismiss one of the theft charges, claiming that it happened before he joined the alleged conspiracy.
Nickels is scheduled to enter a guilty plea before a U.S. magistrate judge in Seattle today.
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