Prosecutors have asked Lake Superior Court Judge Thomas Stefaniak, Jr. to revoke the bond for 38-year-old Johnny R. Mathis Jr., of LaCrosse, who has been charged with defrauding a local casino by not paying a $1.3 million gambling line of credit.
Mathis, who is charged with theft and fraud, both Class C felonies punishable by a sentence of two to eight years, and deception, a misdemeanor, has been free on $2,000 cash bond posted in July 2007. When he posted bond, Mathis signed a document that he may not leave the state without permission of the court. After missing a court hearing in March 2010, the judge allowed travel for business purposes.
