Online Gambling Ring Bust
August 31, 2009
Anthony Argila, knows better. He is 52 years old and is a professional poker player. He is from North Bellmore, and he is in deep trouble with the law for an illegal online gambling ring that he has been running. Had Argila been a younger man, or someone not already involved in the world of gambling, one might think that it was simply a misunderstanding – or that he just didn’t understand what the laws were. However, this is not the case.
Argila is the boss of a multimillion dollar online gambling ring that is internationally known. Argila has been running it out of his Long Island home, but has run the payment processing portion of it through a bank in Costa Rica. He took online gambling bets from locations in Nassau and Suffolk Counties – and then they would collect their winnings through a separate web site.
Argila has plead guilty to seventeen felony accounts of first degree promoting gambling, one felony count of possession of gambling, and two misdemeanor counts of fifth degree conspiracy. He is going to be looking at jail time of some sort for the illegal online gambling ring, and will be facing fines as well.
Argila is looking at a lawsuit from the prosecutor’s office that is seeking $4 million – which is the amount that processed through the online gambling ring. The police started investigating the online gambling ring in 2005, infiltrated it in 2007, and then finally they made an arrest.
