An illegal sports gambling ring ran out of a poker room in an Atlantic City casino has been closed. The bust occurred on Wednesday, and resulted in 18 people, including four with mob ties, being arrested.
The four with ties to the Philadelphia mob were apparently the ringleaders. Six employees of the casino were also arrested.
The Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa co-operated fully with the investigation. A spokesman for the casino said that the ring involved rogue employees, but that the integrity of the casino's operations was not compromised.
Daniel Heneghan, a spokesman for the state Casino Control Commission, said "I'm certain that any Borgata employees that were arrested, the Division of Gaming Enforcement will file complaints to revoke their licenses,"
The charges, if proven, would make the ring one of the most serious mob operations to be run under an Atlantic City casino since the first casinos opened in the state of New Jersey in 1978.
Gambling has been closely regulated in the state since the late 1970s, because of fear of organized crime –Governor Brendan T. Byme commented, when he signed the law authorizing casinos "I've said it before and I will repeat it again to organized crime: Keep your filthy hands off Atlantic City. Keep the hell out of our state!"
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