Saturday, November 18, 2006

Twenty-seven people, including a Pince Crest man and a former pro baseball
scout, were charged in a billion-dollar-a-year gambling ring. New York City
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says the illegal gambling ring quote --
"rivals casinos for the amount of betting." The massive betting ring was run
through a web site called Playwithal-dot-com, run by the poker player, James
Giordano, of Pine Crest, Florida. A break in the case came last year when
New York Police Department investigators secretly hacked into a laptop
computer that Giordano had left in a Long Island hotel while attending a
wedding. Also arrested was Frank Falzarano, of Seaford, on Long Island, a
one-time scout for the Washington Nationals. He allegedly was a top earner
in a network of two-thousand bookies who took more than three-point-three
billion dollars in cash bets since 2004.