If you took any action with your online bookie on the NBA semi-finals, or whether any of the NBA players would use another homophobic slur on national TV, there's a decent chance that it's now in the hands of the law (what was the over-under on getting nabbed?) SI Live reports that the feds arrested 28 people today in Staten Island, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania for their roles in an online gambling ring that was netting $100,000 a week. One of the leaders, Joseph Stentella, claims to have said that "he ran the system so well he should have been in charge of the state's failed OTB."
The operation has as many as "600 people placing bets through [Stentella's] operation…betting on basketball, hockey and mixed martial arts," and its headquarters was in a former video store-turned-pet store in a strip mall in Castleton Corners, with the domain name www.betjerrys.com, which has been up since 2001. Authorities conducting surveillance on the video store noticed that "pedestrian traffic entering and exiting…over a two year period showed no customer entering or leaving…with videos." A complete list of the defendants can be found here, but these guys will be smarting if Congress winds up legalizing online gambling.
