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December 2, 2008 11:42:01 AM CST



Suspected Mob Gambling Ring Smashed

Posted Dec 19, 07 3:56 AM CST in Crime & Courts US 

(Newser) – New Jersey officials have nabbed a cadre of suspected mob bosses to bust up a sophisticated $2.2 billion gambling ring, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. Others among more than two dozen arrested included a prison officer and a Bloods gangster, said to be part of an "alarming alliance" between the Mafia and Bloods that smuggled drugs and phones to inmates in a Jersey prison.

Triumphant attorney general Anne Milgram boasted that the highest level of the Lucchese crime family had been disrupted. A lawyer for one of the alleged wiseguys slammed the charges, which carry up to 20 years in jail, as "patently unfair."

Sources Star-Ledger, New York Times

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Anne Milgram, First Assistant Attorney General, right, along with State Police Deputy Superintendent Gayle Cameron, left, and Division of Criminal Justice Director, Gregory Paw, center, announce the arrests...   (Associated Press)
New Jersey state Attorney General Anne Milgram, center, along with state police officials, announce arrests during a news conference in Atlantic City, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007, in an illegal sports gambling...   (Associated Press)
New Jersey state Attorney General Anne Milgram. Milgram said the latest arrests would disrupt the highest echelon of the Lucchese crime family. The 20 people arrested include a prison officer and a member...   (Associated Press)
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