Rochester Site of
Online Gambling
February
14, 2010
There are those that would
not have believed it, but it would appear that there was their very own
online gambling ring going on just under their noses. An Ontario Country
man, Joseph J. Fafone has been accused of running an illegal online
gambling business.
Fafone helped build BetOnline.com and is
considered one of the ring leaders of the online gambling ring. He was
arrested along with 30 others on charges of “bookmaking” this past
October. He maintains that he is innocent of the charges, but the
authorities say this is simply not true.
They say that Fafone and his group made more than $587 million through
the online gambling business that they were running. They said that
Fafone was trying to leave the country for Panama when he was arrested
at the airport. Sources close to Fafone say that he was not fleeing the
country; he was simply going there as his online gambling site is a
legally licensed business in Panama.
The company is legal over there, but is not authorized to offer bets to
those patrons that live in the United States. When the online gambling
company was contacted they said that they had no knowledge of anything
that had taken place over there, and that they tried to limit their
businesses within the country and those legal areas that they are
permitted to be in. They refused to give any further information
regarding the charges. Fafone continues to express his innocence, but
now it is up to the courts.
