Thursday was a very honorable day for the Brooklyn Attorney’s Office. On this day The Brooklyn Lawyers workplace busted a $13.2 million Net-based sport gambling activity, of which officials alleges that it was run by a Lucchese crime-household soldier. Eugene, who’s an esteemed mobster “Boopsie” Castelle and a five man work party allegedly, brought in bets on professional as well as collegiate sporting occasions all over the world. At the same time they were wring funds to another location presumed to be offshore.

The alleged suspects were impinged on with a 37 enumerate indictment on Thursday in front of Brooklyn’s Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun. The suspects were charged with a lot allegation. The allegations include: Corruption, they were also said to have promoted gambling, they were also charged to have been laundering money and unlawful conspiracy.

Authorities alleged that one of Staten Island was involved too. Castelle which is Staten’s fifty six island is alleged to have received some cash.  This additional money is said to have been a kind of corruption so as to offer security from the rivals of the busted ring. Anthony Grecco superintended the day-t0 day administration of the pack. Sixty two of Queens. He was charged with three counts of felony for running a mortgage sharking operation. On each count, he faces as much as fifteen years of imprisonment based on each account. To add on that, he also faces twenty five years in jail faced up by his cohorts.

Authorities also said that there were other agents who aide the ring. They are: Theodore Vasilakis , Gaetano Zuccarello,  Laonnis Dinos and lastly Vincent Mormile. The part they played was to protect and monitoring of the rings bets, reporting to Anthony Grecco  and taming relationships with gamblers.  DA Ken Thompson said that the defendants were charged with running a  profitable playing ring that took in tens of millions of dollars in bets and extended all the way to Costa Rica.

If the defendants will be convicted according to the crimes they’ve been caught with, they’ll face up to 25 years in prison.

According to reports from the Tennis Australia, the resignation of its three board members was by any chance related to some match-fixing scandals. Kerryn Pratt, Peter Armstrong and Dr. Janet Young submitted their resignation letters last Friday which would be effectual right away.

Dr Young who was enrolled into the board in 2008 was a member of the team that won the Australian Fed Cup in two consecutive years of 1973 and 1974. Pratt on the other side joined Tennis Australia in 2013. Pratt was in 1979 a semi finalist in the Australian Open Women doubles. She also worked as a commentator and selector of the Fed Cup. Later between 1991 and 1995, she served in the Australian Sports Commission board. Armstrong, a businessman in Australia was indulged as a board member alongside Pratt in 2013.

It is yet to come to the conscience of many following the submission of resignation letters y the three board members. When asked to reveal more information as to why this happened, TA was adamant and only pointed out that the quitting of the three was not related to any match-fixing scam. This was not the right time to quit the post of the three members as the TA was preparing for the upcoming first grand slam tournament of 2016, the Australian Open.

Nonetheless, the TA president Steve Healy had no option but to thank the three for their dedication and effort from the time they were enrolled as board members to their resignation. He claimed that Kerryn, Janet and Peter have made substantial contributions to TA as well as the tennis sport at large for a number of years. He concluded by saying that the TA was grateful for the endurance and wished all the best in their future lives.

The TA will have to consult the nomination committee for the nominees for the vacant three posts a process which has been scheduled to take place before the board meeting in March.

Three bookies banks accounts where frozen in Ahmedabad by the Ahmedabad Unit of Enforcement Directorate. This happened in the past week after the bookies who own these bank accounts where involved in a cricket betting scandal. They are said to be involved in the international cricket betting racket that is termed as the Rs 2,600 crore.

The crackdown began in major Indian towns and started from Mumbai, Bhopal, Delhi and Indore where the officials had some banks accounts related to the scandal shut down and frozen. Some of the names tied to the frozen accounts include Ashish Grover, Paresh Bhatia and Aman Kapur. They were arrested from different towns where Grover was arrested from Delhi alongside Kapur while in Mumbai the officials and authorities made the arrest of Bhatia. All this events and arrests happened on Wednesday. The bank accounts where being frozen and not only those that are tied to the public sector but also those that are on the private sector as well.

All the three bookies that where tied to this cricket betting scandal where on Monday sent into Judicial custody by the PMLA a special court that is directed to dealing to such and related cases. There are also other pending cases as Sanjay Agarwal from Nagpur who is better known as Chhotu Nagpur and Muneer who is from Mumbai received summons for them to appear before the ED on Monday but of which both of them turn down this down.

Since the start of the crackdown a total of ten bookies have been arrested pertaining the case that was unveiled by ED Ahmedabad. The case started in March during the cricket world cup. The ED Ahmedabad has made progress in unveiling the bookies tied to this case and so far they have been able to recover eight mobile phones, two laptops, Rs 60 lakh in cashand also documents in Priyadarshini Vihar in Delhi the residence of Kapur. From Grover’s residence, five mobile phones where recovered in Prashant Vihar. This shows a great effort by the authorities to bring down such cases.

Widjaja is a former betting trader and is known to have hacked Singapore Pools about $200,000. He did this by coming up with a conspiracy with his colleague in manipulating football odds. Yesterday he received a jail term of 4 years.

Rocky Widjaja is 26 years and agreed to 13 out of 52 counts of cheating with Thomas Tong Heng Huat who is 32 years for the use of a computer to gain access a programme known as Margin Maker 2 (MM2); this was used to cheat the Singapore Pools.

Toh Yung Cheong who was the judge to the case denied the permanent citizen to Singapore cash-bailout. The case has a pending appeal against ruling. At the same time, the court learnt that in August 2011, the two colleagues had intentions of cheating their employer through the use of the software to control the odds of the “total goals: over/under”. They intended to do this on the different leagues and football matches in international leagues.

This plan would be implemented by either of the man who on the trading rooms in Singapore Pools’ headquarter was on the shift at the time of implementation. The man who would be off shift would place their bet and his conspirator would accept the bet, before they lowered the odds a couple of minutes after.

The actions would be coordinated and a sure win would be guaranteed for them and a sure loss for the Singapore Pools. The tickets that won the bet would be claimed at different pools outlets.

The scheme went on for a long time before being unravelled until January 20^th, 2012. This is when it was realized that Widjaja had gone against the staff regulations through his the bets that he placed in the outlets. The bets were between $12,000 and $38,000 and the winning would be as much as $44,000.

When Ricky’s actions were discovered, he erased his texts and a Microsoft spreadsheet that contained details to the offences. His lawyer made an impassioned plea for the pre-sentence report. She reported that her client had made a full restitution for all the money he took together with Thong’s share. Thong is currently serving a 5year-4months jail term for similar offences.

Things are getting tougher for Phil Mickelson a professional golfer who has been involved in an illegal sport betting scandal. This comes after a wage handicapper claimed that he had laundered more than $3 million to the golfer. Gregory Silveira pleaded guilty on the different criminal accounts of money laundering that were believed to have taken place between 2010 and 2013.

It is believed that the ‘hidden’ client involved in the saga was the 45 year old Mickelson. However, there are doubts that he would face the law as he has never been involved in any franchise. Moreover, the federal government would probably opt to concentrate on prosecuting those who run the illegal betting rather than clients.

His lawyer avoided any comments about the saga and claimed that the case was conducted by another attorney. It was believed that Mickelson sent two dispatches of money in $2.475 million and $275,000 to Silveira’s account where the cash was later distributed to different accounts that were possessed by him.

It was not clear the main purpose that saw the cash being transferred. Even Internal Revenue Service officials declined to say anything about the subject. These acts are deemed to be illegal in U.S with the exception of Nevada. Suspicion grew when it was evident that there was awkward money transfer which involved huge sums with no specific destination. This cleared showed some acts of criminality that would be traced back to Silveira.

This is the second time that Mickelson has been involved in gambling scandals after he was previously fined by the PGA Tour. In this case, he was involved in little amount bet where he waged $25 with a 20/1 odd that Jim Furyk would hit the shot direct to the hole. In addition, he was also involved in yet another franchise that involved tycoon Billy Walters and financial Carl Icahn. The case here involved the buying of Clorox in 2011. However, Mickelson was lucky to pull out of the case.

If found guilty this October, Silveira will face up to 20-year sentence on each account. However, the judge may be lenient and offer him a much lesser sentence.

From the Suburban New York, police have made arrests of 8 people who are believed to be associated with sports betting operations as detectives were in a crack down on mob-run gambling and loan-sharking.

This was a 10 month investigation that was labelled “Operation Rock Bottom” which focused on unauthorized high-interest street loans, as well as, off-shore gambling portals.

Investigators were in a position to put into custody unauthorized gambling records, more than $750,000 and computers through a search warrant issued to them in Rockland, Bergen County, New Jersey.

Arrested parties were charged with cases of receiving money for bets and putting people who borrowed money under pressure of interest rates of 25% to make payments. They were asked to make their payments weekly and bi-weekly.

4 of those who were arrested reside in Rockland. After the ring was announced, it was realized that it was also operational in Westchester County but no further details were availed.

This gambling website gave bettors usernames and passwords to use while placing bets on football, basketball and other sports events. The charges placed towards the arrested were for monitoring the betting activities taking place on the website and collecting money from losing bettors or winners who were paying out.

Who were Arrested?

Nicholas Farese; a 51-year old resident of Clearwater Court who was charged with promotion of gambling, having in possession of records to gambling and money laundering.

Ronald Ayes is another of the arrested parties residing in South Nyack and is seventy-one years of age. He was also charged with crimes of gambling promotion, money laundering, criminal usury and gambling related records possession.

Mark Moschells a 52 year old New Jersey resident was charged with money laundering crimes and a misdemeanour crime in gambling promotion.

Other people arrested were Vincenzo Reda, Peter Reda, Anthony Moschella, John Reyes and Richard Herman. All were charged with different degrees of money laundering, gambling records possession and promotion of gambling activities.

The investigations were a success due to the efforts of different departments which include the New York and Pennsylvania State Police, Prosecutors in Bergen and Florida and NYPD Asset Forfeiture Unit.