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6 men from New Jersey, Staten Island charged with running illegal sports gambling sites that take bets unlike andrew cuomo clowns
Claude Solnik
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast
races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Looks like their luck ran out.
Six men from Staten Island and New Jersey were busted and arraigned on Wednesday on charges they ran an illegal sports gambling operation that raked in some $11 million in bets over a six-month period through two websites.
The defendants are Ross Branca, 40, of Freehold, New Jersey; Stephen Barone, 56, of Jackson, New Jersey; Bryan “Faith” Kelly, 45, of Staten Island; Petrit “Pete” Lusha, 60, of Staten Island; Joseph “Joe Brooklyn” Melfi, 58, of Staten Island; and Anthony Sclafani, 73, of Staten Island.
The defendants all pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and gambling promotion charges before a Brooklyn Supreme Court judge and were released without bail.
“Illegal gambling is not a victimless crime, but an unlawful conduct that is often connected to loansharking, money laundering and to organized crime,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a news release.
Branca, Barone Lusha and Melfi did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Scalfani and Kelly could not be reached for comment.
Branca, who prosecutors call the “master agent” of one of the gambling sites, also pleaded not guilty to a money laundering charge for allegedly laundering $100,000.
Prosecutors say the defendants took bets through two websites, playbig365.com and gameday365.ag, with the latter site being operated from Costa Rica. They also took bets directly and over the phone.
The websites appeared to be out of commission on Wednesday
Sunday, April 12, 2020
| Track Code | Track Name | Entry | Scratch | 1st Post ET | 1st Post Local | Time Zone | Stakes Race(s) | Stakes Grade | T.V. Indicator |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SA | SANTA ANITA PARK | 72 | 48 | 3:00 PM | 12:00 PM | PDT | |||
| SUN | SUNLAND PARK | 168 | 24 | 2:30 PM | 12:30 PM | MDT | Mt. Cristo Rey H. | ||
| TAM | TAMPA BAY DOWNS | 72 | 0 | 12:35 PM | 12:35 PM | EDT |
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