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Police Makes $100 Million Illegal Gambling Bust

NEW YORK – As reported by the New York Newsday: "In what prosecutors described as a $100-million-dollar bust of organized crime, 12 people in four boroughs were arrested over the weekend for allegedly running an illegal gambling network that included bets on the Super Bowl.

"Dubbed Operation Kings Flush, the month-long sting ended with raids of nine locations in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and Staten Island, officials said.

"The 12 bookies took bets from neighborhood betting parlors, funneling the bulk of the proceeds to established organized-crime families, including the Gambino and Genovese rings, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said. Hynes' office, the Staten Island's district attorney's office and the NYPD worked together on the operation.

"…Bets were taken for professional basketball, football and college basketball games, Hynes said, with the Super Bowl the biggest cash cow…"

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