Post subject: FBI took away the football pool at my work!
Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:13 pm
Camden Crew
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 10:59 am Posts: 9057 Location: Camden, NJ
Ive been putting my slip in every week for 5 years now, and never won. This is a big time mobbed up pool with payouts in the 10's of thousands each week. In fact my buddy at work one it one week in 2002 and split it with 4 other winners and still took home $12,000.
Well last night the bubble burst as the FBI apparently raided the operation and arrested everyone and took the money. Whats funny is that the guy who collects the money here for this thing actually won this week for the first time ever and now he gets NOTHING! hahaha
my friends have lost a few bookies over the years to the feds.
funny stuff.
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
unless they made the arrests to get information in other areas, this seems like a waste of the feds' time...
i mean, shouldnt they all be looking for terrorists non-stop to protect us?
you have a point, but the mob basically uses the money they get from gambling to fund many of their other operations such as: drugs, bid-rigging, union corruption and so on.
Taking away their primary revenue stream is often an affective tactic when dealing with organized crime.
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:14 am Posts: 8662 Location: IL
Ricardo Tubbs wrote:
pearljamminagain wrote:
unless they made the arrests to get information in other areas, this seems like a waste of the feds' time...
i mean, shouldnt they all be looking for terrorists non-stop to protect us?
you have a point, but the mob basically uses the money they get from gambling to fund many of their other operations such as: drugs, bid-rigging, union corruption and so on.
Taking away their primary revenue stream is often an affective tactic when dealing with organized crime.
kinda what i was hinting at with my opening line... makes sense if they are somehow serving another purpose...
unless they made the arrests to get information in other areas, this seems like a waste of the feds' time...
i mean, shouldnt they all be looking for terrorists non-stop to protect us?
you have a point, but the mob basically uses the money they get from gambling to fund many of their other operations such as: drugs, bid-rigging, union corruption and so on.
Taking away their primary revenue stream is often an affective tactic when dealing with organized crime.
kinda what i was hinting at with my opening line... makes sense if they are somehow serving another purpose...
the govt. should just legalize sports gambling and tax it. they would make a killing.
_________________ “You’re good kids, stay together. Trust each other and be good teammates to one another. I believe there is a championship in this room.”
-Ernie Accorsi in his final address to the NY Giants locker room before retiring as GM in January of 2007
Joined: Mon Oct 18, 2004 12:14 am Posts: 8662 Location: IL
Ricardo Tubbs wrote:
pearljamminagain wrote:
Ricardo Tubbs wrote:
pearljamminagain wrote:
unless they made the arrests to get information in other areas, this seems like a waste of the feds' time...
i mean, shouldnt they all be looking for terrorists non-stop to protect us?
you have a point, but the mob basically uses the money they get from gambling to fund many of their other operations such as: drugs, bid-rigging, union corruption and so on.
Taking away their primary revenue stream is often an affective tactic when dealing with organized crime.
kinda what i was hinting at with my opening line... makes sense if they are somehow serving another purpose...
the govt. should just legalize sports gambling and tax it. they would make a killing.
that and weed and we'd be one rich country
Last edited by pearljamminagain on Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:46 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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