By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
FBI agents acted against the recommendation of an assistant U.S. attorney and impersonated repair technicians at a Las Vegas hotel to investigate online sports betting, the Associated Press reports.
The agents shut off the Internet at a Las Vegas hotel to make it appears as though the computer and hardware needed to be repaired.
Now defense attorneys representing some of the suspects are asking a federal judge to throw out the case because agents didn’t receive consent to examine the equipment being used by the suspects.
The hotel tipped off the FBI of a possible illegal gambling operation.
By gaining access to the computers, agents were able to get valuable evidence of an illegal online gambling operation.
