Nearly 60 charged in Florida gambling scandal

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cybrsage

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Florida's lieutenant governor resigned and nearly 60 other people were charged in a scandal involving a purported veterans charity that authorities said Wednesday was a front for a $300 million gambling operation.
The organization, Allied Veterans of the World, runs nearly 50 Internet parlors with computerized slot machine-style games, which are normally legal in Florida if most of the proceeds go to charity.
But investigators said the organization's executives gave precious little to veterans and lavished millions on themselves, spending it on boats, beachfront condos and Maseratis, Ferraris and Porsches.
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi called the alleged scam "callous" and "despicable" and said it "insults every American who ever wore a military uniform."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/03/13/nearly-60-charged-lg-resigns/#ixzz2NSsLmnVi


If guilty, they should all be punished severely. Abuse of the public trust is something I hate.
 

cybrsage

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Can you show me that all of them are replublicans, please?



EDIT: Drats! I forgot to double post my new thread. :(
 

Fern

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I highly doubt it.

Not even the Lt Gov is being charged from what I read.

I've seen this gambling scam before. In most states (Nevada is the exception) gambling is outlawed. In some states the native Americans can operate casinos, but that's not a lot. Instead all states I know of have ONE exception and that's allowing veteran's groups to raise money by having bingo and the like. As a result, the mafia has entered the 'veterans group' business.

I had a client that did this. I thought he was legit and only figured it out later. Eventually he got busted, but thankfully I had already fired him as a client. All you've got to do is file the simple and necessary paperwork claiming to be a charitable veterans org, and to my knowledge no one checks up on that, and voila! you've got an authorized and legal gambling business (at least until you're caught). It looks like exactly what these people were doing.

Fern
 

dmcowen674

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I highly doubt it.

Not even the Lt Gov is being charged from what I read.

o_O Do you read any articles?

3-13-2013

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest...Governor-resigns-amid-Internet-gambling-probe

Florida Lt. Governor resigns amid Internet gambling probe



Carroll abruptly resigned Wednesday, March 13, 2012 after authorities questioned her ties into internet cafes that authorities say are fronts for gambling.



The owner of the company accused of supplying the cafes with illegal gambling software was arrested Tuesday in Oklahoma. Chase Egan Burns, 37, faces charges of racketeering. He heads Anadarko, Okla.-based International Internet Technologies.


The former lieutenant governor — who is the mother of Miami Dolphins defensive back Nolan Carroll — has been named in previous scandals.
Last year, a former aide, Carletha Cole, claimed to have found Carroll in a compromising position with a travel aide inside's Carroll's office.
 

umbrella39

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Yes a high level republican was one of them but I'm highly doubting all 60 of them were...
 

cybrsage

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To dmcowen, anyone who commits a crime is a republican. Even if that person is a current democrat party representative or such, he is actually a secret republican only pretending to be a democrat. And he is also rich, which is why we must hate him.
 
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