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Feds Investigate Offshore Betting Scheme

17 July 2000

BUFFALO, NEW YORK – July 17, 2000 As reported by Associated Press: "The FBI is investigating a gambling ring connected to organized crime that uses a toll free 1-800 telephone number and an offshore office in the Dominican Republic to take bets.

"Federal agents and prosecutors say payoffs and collections are made by members of a Mafia-linked group headed by one of western New York's longtime bookies, Benjamin `Sonny' Nicoletti of Lewiston in Niagara County.

"…Law enforcement officials believe the 1-800 ring allegedly run by Nicoletti has been in operation since at least 1997 and takes in millions of dollars in sports wagers each year."

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