Today’s arrests close down a highly lucrative gambling operation that benefitted the Gambino crime family to the tune of millions of dollars each year and send a loud and clear message that law enforcement will keep up the pressure.Electrochemical reactions occurring at the opposite ends of bipolar electrodes (BPEs) are necessarily coupled, enabling electron transfer events at one end to be read out optically, for example, by coupling to fluorogenic reactions at the other end. Unfortunately for the defendants, the law enforcement community is just as adept in using new technology to stop those involved in such criminal activity. Such computerized wire rooms operate around the clock and can handle a large volume of bettors at any one time, thus allowing the organizers to increase their illicit profits without having to bother with the time-consuming record-keeping aspects of a more traditional, paper-based bookmaking operation. Illegal gambling is by no means a victimless crime – it provides the fuel that allows organized crime to operate and is often accompanied by threats, intimidation and violence in the collection of gambling debts.” District Attorney Brown continued, “In keeping up with modern technology, the illegal gambling enterprise in this case is alleged to have gone online, supplementing the traditional wire room and street corner bookie who penciled in wagers in a little black book with offshore-based internet websites – designed for sports betting and casino-style gambling – and toll-free telephone numbers through which they were able to manage numerous gambling accounts, out of which criminal proceeds were collected and distributed throughout the New York City-metropolitan area. District Attorney Brown said, “Illegal gambling has always been the bread and butter moneymaker for organized crime because of the huge profits that it generates which can then be used to fund other more insidious forms of criminal activity, such as labor racketeering, drug trafficking, prostitution, auto theft, insurance fraud and loan sharking. Twenty of the defendants are in custody and six are presently being sought.
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Kelly, today announced the indictment of 26 individuals – including reputed Gambino organized crime family “capo” or captain Nicholas Corozzo – on charges of operating a highly sophisticated illegal gambling enterprise in Queens County and elsewhere that booked nearly $10 million in wagers over a two-year period on professional and college basketball and football, professional baseball and hockey and other sporting events. Brown, joined by Police Commissioner Raymond W. BROWN DISTRICT ATTORNEY DISTRICT ATTORNEY QUEENS COUNTY 125-01 QUEENS BOULEVARD KEW GARDENS, NEW YORK 11415-1568 71 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: QDA PRESS OFFICE THURSDAY, FEBRU(718) 286-6315 (MORE) NYPD/DCPI (646) 610-6700 Release # 27-2008 TWENTY-SIX CHARGED IN $10 MILLION DOLLAR GAMBINO ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILY GAMBLING, LOAN SHARKING AND PROSTITUTION OPERATION Reputed Capo, Soldiers and Associates Among Those Arrested Ring Allegedly Ran Wire Rooms in Queens and Off-Shore In Costa Rica Queens District Attorney Richard A.
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