New York City “Diamond Enterprise” boss Abduraman Iseni who pleaded guilty to running an organized crime network of illegal gambling parlors across Brooklyn was sentenced to 55 months in prison, which will be his third time in federal lockup following past convictions stretching back decades.
Abduraman “Diamond” Iseni, 56, had already served two stints in federal lockup, in 1996 for racketeering and 2012 for money laundering, before setting up gambling parlors all over Brooklyn from 2017 to 2020. The illegal gambling houses hosted poker games and sports books.
The leader of an illegal New York gambling ring asked a federal judge for leniency at his upcoming sentencing, saying he's being held in "deplorable" conditions at Brooklyn's oft-maligned Metropolitan Detention Center and faces deportation because he's not a citizen of any country.