• Home
• Business

From Press staff reports

ATLANTIC CITY - A new award has been created to honor the memory of a gaming supervisor who was gunned down last month while working at the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort.

The Raymond Kot Award will be part of the Host Awards given out annually by the Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Authority in recognition of top employees in the hospitality and casino industries.

Kot, who had worked in Atlantic City's gaming industry since its inception in 1978, was a shift supervisor at the Taj Mahal. The award bearing his name will go to the winner of the "Best Casino Games Personnel" category.

"Ray Kot was a veteran gaming employee who was respected by all who knew and worked with him through the years. It will be an honor to his memory to present an Atlantic City casino games employee with this prestigious award," said Mark Juliano, chief executive officer of Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. and a member of the convention authority's board.

Kot, 57, was shot May 27 in an office just off the casino floor. Mark Magee, a casino customer from Norristown, Pa., has been charged with murder and weapons offenses.

No comments have been posted. Be the first poster!

PressofAtlanticCity.com offers everyone the opportunity to comment on published stories. However, it is impractical for editors to screen all comments.
If you believe a comment is offensive, please click on the abuse-reporting link and your objection will be considered by an editor. We encourage participants to use their real names, but inoffensive screen names are acceptable. Comments are the sole responsibility of the person posting them.
Please post responsibly. Do not post comments that are off topic, defamatory, obscene, abusive, threatening or an invasion of privacy.
Be polite. Don’t hate. Users who don’t play by the rules may be blocked from participating.

View our full terms of service and privacy agreement

Click here to report a comment as abusive.

You must login to post a new comment