Charles Barkley Owes $400k to Vegas Casino?

16-May-2008, 17:51

Retired NBA star Charles Barkley has acknowledged he owes a $400,000 gambling debt to a Las Vegas casino and promised Thursday to repay it after a prosecutor said he faced criminal charges.

“My mistake,” Barkley said in an interview at a recent pro-am golf tournament. “I’m not broke, and I’m going to take care of it.”

Barkley was responding to comments by the Clark County district attorney, David Roger, who said prosecutors would file a criminal complaint if he did not pay the debt cited by the Wynn Las Vegas resort.

“He’ll have an opportunity like anybody else to make restitution to the hotel,” Roger said.

The casino alleged in a civil complaint filed Wednesday in a Nevada state court and first reported by the Las Vegas Sun that Barkley failed to repay four $100,000 casino markers, or loans, received last Oct. 18 and 19.

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