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Bookie Ring Uncovered...Again

The news this week may inflict a bit of déjà vu on ardent readers of the online casino gambling industry news – and that’s because the gambling ring that has just been busted by federal authorities was already busted back in 2006. The US law enforcement agencies from two states collaborated over the past several months to rebuild a case against two men from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania who have been operating an illegal bookmaking business for years now. The online casinos are strictly illegal in the US, as are interstate gambling and betting. For the two Mastronardos however, the fact that they were arrested and pled guilty to bookmaking charges back in 2006 has not seemed to phase these two men enough to put a kibosh to their business.

The two men in question, Jospeh V. Mastronardo Jr and John Mastronardo, have been on probation over the past several years because of a case that US authorities already brought against the men in question. Both Mastronardo men pled guilty to their bookmaking charges and paid the fines and stayed on probation. But US authorities began to suspect that the men never fully shut down their online bookmaking business and over the past several months have used phone tapping and insider plants to cull out more evidence and information against the both Mastronardos.

The information is in place and both men have been arrested on illegal land and online casino bookmaking charges. The US authorities raided the homes of the two men implicated in the sports betting ring and have seized more than $2 million in cash in addition to bookmaking records and computers used to process and record the transactions.