Gamblers sue casino over workers’ words

MINEOLA, N.Y. – A couple of roulette table workers at the Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut took a gamble themselves last September when they bet that a group of nine women playing at their table could not speak Spanish, according to a lawsuit.

“Great, we have a bunch of dumb broads that don’t know how to play,” one of the men said to the other, before digressing into lewd name-calling and insults. They called one woman a derogatory word for a lesbian and spoke in vulgar terms about wanting to have sex with the women, according to legal papers filed this week by the women.

What the men did not know was that the woman sitting closest to them, Michele Marigliano, 42, of Long Island, N.Y., was a former bilingual education teacher and was taking in every word.

“We were all in a great mood, but as I heard this, I became more and more upset and flustered,” Marigliano said.

Now the women are suing the workers, identified only by their first names, Rafael and Efrain, the Mashantucket Pequot Indians and Foxwoods Casino for $500,000 per plaintiff in state Supreme Court in Mineola for the humiliation they endured.