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The entire GPWA membership was shaken to its core this past weekend when it was discovered that one of its most trusted and high profile members has been attempting to ellicit regular monthly payments from a casino affiliate program for their volunteer work at the GPWA as the affiliate program's Liaison.

GPWA counts among its members many volunteers who act as Liaisons between GPWA members and specific affiliate programs. These Liaisons serve as primary points of communication to the members for the affiliate program, and assist with unresolvable problems other GPWA members may have with the program; they are not authorized by anyone, GPWA or any of its members, to act in any capacity other than this. Volunteers at GPWA are exactly that, however - volunteers. GPWA is not a revenue generating association and, other than a small monthly maintenance and advertising fee charged to the member casinos for their private forums, no one, not even the Manager, earns money for their work at GPWA.

The GPWA Manager, Cynthia Carley, was informed of this member's attempt to ellicit money from them on Thursday afternoon, June 26, by the manager of the affected affiliate program. After some initial investigation, Cynthia presented the situation to the membership for action. As this was discussed by the members this weekend, more and more information came to light that this member has been acting in a number of unauthorized and improper ways, much of it on behalf of, or in the name of, GPWA; some of it also on the behalf of other GPWA members, unbeknownst to them.

The entire GPWA membership wants it to be known that at no time was this member authorized to speak for any member of GPWA, nor for GPWA itself. While this member has done a lot for GPWA, we consider these actions of this member to be a very grievous conflict of interest and breach of ethics not representative of GPWA's ideals. After thorough discussion by the members a vote of the general membership was taken and, decided by the 3 to 1 majority vote in favor of, the member has now been permanently expelled from GPWA.

We want to thank the Affiliate Manager who brought this to our attention and sincerely appreciate the courage and trust it took for him to do this. One of GPWA's primary goals is to establish trustworty and productive working relationships with casino affiliate programs and we would encourage any casino affiliate program employee that experiences any questionable activity on the part of a GPWA member to bring it to the attention of the GPWA Manager.

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