Online sportsbook Beteagle owner, 78-year-old Joseph Graziano of Springfield, New Jersey, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for his involvement in an illegal sports betting conspiracy as announced by United States Attorney Paul J Fishman.
Judge Claire C Cecchi sentenced Graziano, who pled guilty to the charge.
Court documentation and court statements revealed that Graziano was the principal owner of Beteagle.com, a Costa Rican website accepting illegal online sports wagers with ties to an American organized crime family.
In addition to prison time, Judge Cecchi ordered Graziano to serve three years of supervised release and imposed a $16,000 fine. Graziano also forfeited $1 million to the United States.
In relation to this case, Dominick J Barone pled guilty to being involved in the illegal operation and also received 18 months in prison on June 16, 2015.
The third man involved, 83-year-old "capo" Joseph Lascala, has yet to be charged.
An investigation involving the FBI; the Bayonne Police Department, Special Investigations Unit; IRS-Criminal Investigation; the NJ. State Police, and the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office led to the prosecutions.
Alexa Alexa 8 years ago
yI must agree with aleksandar vlaisavljevic.It is really hard to imagine that man in this age can do such a thing.Instead playinhg with grandsons he organizes illegal betting.It is the money that is litterally stolen from the governent so it is normal to go to prison for doing that.
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aleksandar vlaisavljevic 8 years ago
I can not imagine people in that age doing things like this, but it is always a good news to hear that one more illegal operator is down. The interest of state is always to get money from operators, but I am thinking about interest of players, and it is security of game.
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sharpe
8 years ago
No wonder that Graziano has ties to an American organized crime family, it's really strange for me that at this age he still continue to be owner of this illegal sports betting operator. Maybe he had to retire long time ago and that could save him a time in jail in the closing stages of his live, but I guess it was hard...
No wonder that Graziano has ties to an American organized crime family, it's really strange for me that at this age he still continue to be owner of this illegal sports betting operator. Maybe he had to retire long time ago and that could save him a time in jail in the closing stages of his live, but I guess it was hard for him to stop doing that.
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