Ack - I'm so sorry to hear that!
Those are two of the biggest issues we're working to resolve. In fact, the patch is supposed to restore corrupt saves as well. Unfortunately, due to the many possible causes of file corruption, we can't guarantee that it will be able to restore every file, however, we found the primary cause of corruption and found that the patch was able to fix it pretty consistently.
About the money lost in the Casino, it's definitely a major frustration. The updates should prevent this from happening in the future as well. In the interim, players have found a few crafty ways to make money within the normal game mechanics (repeating the Speed event in Hawaii Cup 2 being one of them). There are definitely more, so feel free to ask around.
Once again, sorry about the inconvenience you encountered, and I hope that the upcoming patches will keep you in the game. :)