Huge bust in Arizona-Links to offshore (Including BETCRIS!) and NY Mob Families

[jonnyblaze]

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/88450

[The Judge]

I was hoping that you were OK, Blaze. Sherrif Arpaio don't mess around.

Joint Law Enforcement Effort Hits Alleged Gambling Ring

[jonnyblaze]

The sheriff’s office is accusing Valenti of running the Web sites www.betcris.com and www.bigonsports.com; Melton is accused of operating www.tradewinds.com.cr/trdwd.com; Pokrass is accused of running www.allsportsnow.com; and DiPiero is accused of running www.vipsportswagers.com. Some of the Web sites have been taken off-line.

If you used these sites be careful

[Romanowski]

lol betcris will never go away

you dont have to feel insecure with money there

one man isnt behind basically THE operation offshore

[jonnyblaze]

I just talked to my local through a contact who wanted to know if I could run a check to see if their name was brought up. So far its all good, however, those Bars mentioned were 3 of the spots they meet for payments so there must be heat.

Looks like its time to get my BetJam account rolling judge, lol....guess no one is safe on either end

[The Judge]

The sheriff’s office is accusing Valenti of running the Web sites www.betcris.com and . . . .

Yeah, Sacco turned CRIS over to Valenti. LMAO!

[Romanowski]

this is a huge bust however

big players live in phoenix apparently

go suns

[The Judge]

Originally Posted by jonnyblaze

Looks like its time to get my BetJam account rolling judge, lol....guess no one is safe on either end

[jonnyblaze]

Originally Posted by Romanowski

lol betcris will never go away

you dont have to feel insecure with money there

one man isnt behind basically THE operation offshore

Prob right rome, but not to re-hash and old argument, but as its been proven, we just never know. Enterpirses that were "safe" and "never going away" have proven to be unsafe and have gone away, including ones bigger (as big) than Cris.

What I intereesting is the close ties between street gaming and on-line. It appears a lot of the credit accounts were from the streets, as well as the money funneled there.

I wonder if its wise guys money that is moving the lines or stricly offshore

[Romanowski]

Originally Posted by jonnyblaze

I wonder if its wise guys money that is moving the lines or stricly offshore

one and the same

[jonnyblaze]

Originally Posted by Romanowski

one and the same

There must anonymous players online who are sharp as **** that affect line movement, no?

[Romanowski]

betcris is doesnt move on a whim or 'air' only money

other shops might copy them and not really be moving on money (coming in to them)

[The Judge]

Originally Posted by The Judge

Sherrif Arpaio don't mess around.

To those not familiar Joe Arpiao, he is the Maricopa County Sheriff and he keeps getting elected over and over.

Here are some of the reasons why:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) who created the "tent city jail":

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights.

Cut off all but "G" movies.

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied, “So they will know how hot its gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.”

He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value.

When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."


He bought Newt Gingrich's lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails.

When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

More on the Arizona Sheriff:
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.


On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.

Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks.

"It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It's inhumane."


Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It s 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths!"

[jonnyblaze]

Hey Judge: The infamous sherrif Joe has avoided scandal (somewhat) even though he used these chain gangs to build for private contractors of which he got a kickback for.

Further, those pink clothing items? All dyed pink and cleaned by his sister's dry cleaning company who was-you guessed it- awarded the county jail dry cleaning contract

[revnecro1273]

Originally Posted by jonnyblaze

Hey Judge: The infamous sherrif Joe has avoided scandal (somewhat) even though he used these chain gangs to build for private contractors of which he got a kickback for.

Further, those pink clothing items? All dyed pink and cleaned by his sister's dry cleaning company who was-you guessed it- awarded the county jail dry cleaning contract

sounds like the bush administation