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Extradited Israeli Fugitive Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Conducting Illegal Gambling Business, Money Laundering Details Written by IVN
Sacramento, California - Orel Gohar, 30, formerly of San Francisco, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to two and a half years in prison for conducting an illegal gambling business, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and failure to appear, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
According to court documents, Gohar participated in operating an organization that installed and maintained illegal video slot machines at businesses open to the public across Northern California. Gohar also participated in two different conspiracies to launder the proceeds of the lucrative gambling business through co-defendants’ other businesses. In total, Gohar participated in laundering at least $650,000.
Editorial: Here s a miserable California tradition the state s new attorney general should change
May 25, 2021
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The sports book at Las Vegas’ Caesars Palace in 2019.Bridget Bennett / Special to The Chronicle
Will California’s new attorney general, Rob Bonta, carry on one of the more unsavory customs of his predecessors? The state’s gambling interests have a few hundred thousand dollars that says he will.
Bonta, one of three politicians elevated to nominally elective offices by Gov. Gavin Newsom this year, has to persuade voters to let him keep the job next year. The former Alameda assemblyman has already raised more than half a million dollars toward that, and as Politico reported, casinos, card rooms and other gambling interests accounted for most of it.
By City News Service
Apr 10, 2021
POMONA (CNS) - Three men, including one Los Angeles Police Department officer, were implicated in an illegal football gambling operation and are scheduled to be arraigned on felony charges of bookmaking later this month, authorities announced today.
Officer Robert Felix, 50, Francisco Martin Del Campo, 51, and Gabriel Martin Del Campo, 52, allegedly orchestrated the gambling operation in which participants placed high-dollar bets on the outcome of the National Football League s Super Bowl, according to an LAPD statement.
All three are facing two counts each of felony bookmaking filed by the California Department of Justice s Fraud and Special Prosecution Section on Wednesday. They are scheduled to be arraigned in a Pomona courtroom on April 22.
By City News Service
Apr 10, 2021
POMONA (CNS) - Three men, including one Los Angeles Police Department officer, were implicated in an illegal football gambling operation and are scheduled to be arraigned on felony charges of bookmaking later this month, authorities announced today.
Officer Robert Felix, 50, Francisco Martin Del Campo, 51, and Gabriel Martin Del Campo, 52, allegedly orchestrated the gambling operation in which participants placed high-dollar bets on the outcome of the National Football League s Super Bowl, according to an LAPD statement.
All three are facing two counts each of felony bookmaking filed by the California Department of Justice s Fraud and Special Prosecution Section on Wednesday. They are scheduled to be arraigned in a Pomona courtroom on April 22.