Borgata PR sports betting charges being brought

[Lanzalot]

Hot off the Press of Atlantic City website:

Developing: Investigators probe illegal gambling ring in casino poker room
Published: Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Updated 11:37 a.m. Oct. 14 (Nov.?)

More than a dozen employees of Borgata Casino and Spa's poker room and organized crime associates were arrested and charged with operating a sports gambling ring on the Borgata's poker room floor. Attorney General Anne Milgram will announce the charges at a 2 p.m. press conference.

That's all there is to the "article" at this point. Anybody know anything about this?

[Mr. AtlanticCity]

Damn, had I known which employee was the bookie, I wouldn't have had any need for my off-shore Sportsbook account.

[Repsychler]

Are sportbooks illegal in AC? Or were these guys just(allegedly) working a "side job?"

[dudemanjack]

Sport betting is illegal in NJ.

[Mr. AtlanticCity]

They were doing some "side action" and using their position in a casino to benefit. Would not suprise me if there was connection to the NJ mob.

EDIT: I was correct, see article below from Delaware News Journal.

Gambling ring busted in Atlantic City
Associated Press

Posted Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 12:17 pm
TRENTON — An illegal sports gambling ring being run out of a high-stakes poker room in an Atlantic City casino was busted up today.

Eighteen people were arrested in connection to the gambling ring, a law enforcement official said today. Among them were six Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa employees and four known mob associates from Philadelphia, according to the official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to speak about the case.

The official said another five people were being sought.

New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram scheduled a 2 p.m. news conference.
A call to Borgata spokesman Michael Facenda was not immediately returned today.

The arrests appear to be among the most serious mob incursions into the Atlantic City casino industry since the first casino opened in 1978.

Fear of organized crime prompted New Jersey to institute tight controls when legal gambling began, but those regulations have been loosened over the years.

[SellingtheDrama]

Same article in the Courier Post...will have to check back after 2. I'm sure I know a majority of the employees that were arrested just by the odds of it.

[Lanzalot]

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Damn, had I known which employee was the bookie, I wouldn't have had any need for my off-shore Sportsbook account.

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Off-shore books would have less intimidating collection methods, I would think.

[yanxchick]

I bet this board could find out more information than the people reporting the stories.

[UMTerp]

Another article, not much new: http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1107/472628.html

[SellingtheDrama]

http://www.wnbc.com/news/14593518/detail.html

A bit more there - they name the poker room manager as arrested.

Quite frankly this doesn't surprise me, I can't remember the last table I was at where people were not actively betting sports.