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NY cops bust $50 million illegal betting ring

31 March 2008

NEW YORK -- As reported by the Syracuse Post-Standard: "Three Onondaga County men who were arrested in a $20.3 million gambling operation in Central New York three years ago are now accused of being involved in a gambling ring that racked up more than $50 million in bets between September 2006 and this March.

"George Bedigian, 63, of North McBride Street, and Salvatore Tumino, 70, of North Salina Street, both of Syracuse, and Michael LoSurdo, 41, of Lakeside Road, Camillus, are accused of being involved in a $50 million Internet sports betting ring, according to the Albany Times Union.

"...Bedigian was named one of two ringleaders in the $50 million gambling operation, which stretched from Albany to Syracuse.

"...According to the Times Union, Bedigian and LoSurdo were charged with enterprise corruption, the state's version of the federal racketeering law, while Tumino is facing fourth-degree money laundering..."

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