I think they're just trying to save themselves from huge losses but what they did have brought them into a worse situation. The truth will always prevail no matter how we cover up our mistakes. Blaming someone else isn't a good idea and it couldn't even save us from our huge losses. We are only dragging ourselves to bad situations more. It will be better to control ourselves or just accept losses in case we lose our funds since that's a part of gambling. We can't blame others if we are the ones who are making wrong decisions.
Infact they are very lucky that the money belongs to both of them had it been it was a loan or borrowed money used to gamble they could have forfeited there assets and properties to repay the loan and probably sentence to prison, this is a risk not worth taken at all after losing the whole $8,000 they tried to blame someone else in a false claim, honestly the judge even gave them an option of fine which I believe is a soft landing and was very lenient with them, unfortunately they duo are not ready to accept their losses after gambling with the whole money probably anticipating winning a much more money, they could have gamble with part of the money but they were very greedy.