SEARCH NEWS:

 

Gambling Convictions Spur Unusual Sentencing

MINNESOTA – As reported by the Twin Cities Pioneer Press: "A legal idea called "extraordinary restitution" is being used in the sentencing of people who were caught in last year's federal crackdown on sports bookmaking operations at St. Paul bars and restaurants.

"On Thursday, a 36-year-old Edina businessman who lost $850,000 in illegal bets was sentenced to pay $70,000 to two state agencies for gambling addiction and enforcement programs and another $30,000 to a special fund that is being set up to pay travel expenses for families who are visiting female inmates at federal prison facilities.

"John Boss II, president of General Office Products, also will buy a full-page ad addressing gambling addiction that will be published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press sports section, according to terms of a sentence that was imposed by U.S. District Judge James Rosenbaum.

"…'We're trying to hit the education front on a number of different levels, and this is part of that,' said assistant U.S. attorney Bill Koch, who prosecuted the cases and helped work out sentencing agreements.

"…The transportation program was devised by Rosenbaum and other U.S. district judges in Minnesota as a way of addressing a problem peculiar to women who are sent to federal prisons. There are no federal women's prisons in Minnesota, Wisconsin or Iowa. The closest is near Peoria, Illinois…"

< Gaming News