Casino surveillance video focus of lawsuit By LEWIS KAMB, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER June 27, 2003 Surveillance agents responsible for ferreting out cheats at the Tulalip Casino for months videotaped unwitting female gamblers for their own sexual entertainment, a former employee contends. And the employee claims that when she complained about the so-called "blooper tape" -- a compilation of surveillance footage that includes video clips of a female patron stripping off her clothes and another urinating outside the tribe's casino near Marysville -- casino managers schemed to force her out of a job. Now, Viooltje Arpryazhka, 58 years old and unemployed, is seeking compensation through a multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit filed last month in Tulalip Tribal Court. Naming tribal council members, gaming agents and casino managers as defendants -- 28 in all -- her lawsuit claims she was sexually harassed, wrongfully fired and ultimately retaliated against for complain
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