By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com At least nine Miami police officers are the target of an FBI investigation into a scheme to protect an illegal sports-betting operation, the Miami Herald reports. The officers are accused of protecting a Liberty City gambling ring that operated out of a barber shop. The Miami Herald wrote that six of…
By Greg Stejskal ticklethewire.com In 1982 legendary Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler called the FBI office in Ann Arbor. Bo wanted the FBI to talk to his team primarily about the perils of illegal sports gambling. The Senior Resident Agent, Tom Love, agreed to make the presentation. Tom knew I had played (read mostly practiced)…
By KAJA WHITEHOUSE New York Post NEW YORK — The Obama administration just gave Donald Trump and other casino titans a big, wet Christmas kiss. In a stunning decision, the Justice Department has removed a major hurdle that kept states from legalizing online gambling, by maintaining that a key federal law applies to sports betting…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-FBI Director Louis Freeh and Tom Ridge, former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Angels protecting us from evil, or just hired guns for the gambling industry? If you read the press release by FairPlayUSA, you’d think they were here to save us from the evil. FairPlayUSA announced that Freeh…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com James “Harlem” Washington was helping deliver more than the U.S. mail. Washington, a supervisor for the U.S. Postal Service, was convicted Thursday in federal court in New York of running a “Lotto” type numbers gambling operation at the Postal Service and other government facilities that collected about $10 million in wagers,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Four Alabama state legislators, three lobbyists, two business owners and one of their employees and an employee of legislature were indicted in a bribery scheme to promote legislation to legalize electronic bingo machines, the Justice Department announced Monday. “Today, charges were unsealed against 11 legislators, businessmen, lobbyists and associates who, together,…
Historically, as it goes, the Washington area police departments have had relatively little police corruption compared to cities like Chicago, New York and Detroit. But obviously, it hasn’t been non-existent. By Aaron C. Davis Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON –– Federal authorities are investigating whether a group of Washington area police officers took money to…
A man who served more than 30 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit now faces illegal gambling charges. Any way you put it, here’s a man with an unlucky hand. By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press Writer WOBURN, Mass.— A man once framed by the FBI for murder pleaded not guilty Friday to…
