Cammisano Pleads Guilty to
Online Gambling
March
10, 2010
Missouri seems to have an
online gambling mob operation on their hands, or so they think. They say
that they have four people who have already plead guilty to online
gambling charges and that they expect that this number will increase as
they continue to delve into the online gambling scheme that has been
going on.
It started in 1988 when the Federal Bureau of Investigations identified
William D. Cammisano, Jr. as a lieutenant in the Kansas City mafia. They
also identified his father as having mob ties and said that he was the
city’s top mob leader at that time. A year later a federal jury found
Cammisano guilty of obstruction of justice. They gave him five years,
which was then reduced to three years because the appeals court said
that he did not warrant the higher sentence based on the information
given at the trial. In 1994, the Missouri Gaming Commission banned
Cammisano from the state’s casinos using the federal conviction as their
justification.
Cammisano fought the exclusion and maintained his and his father’s
innocence stating that his dad was a “great man” and that neither of
them had anything to do with organized crime and that they had been
unjustly accused.
Fast forward to 2010, and we find Cammisano, now 60 and living in
Harrisonville, pleading guilty to online gambling. Cammisano said that
he participated in an online gambling enterprise that involved Costa
Rica. The Federal Agents said that he and the others would give an 800
number to those people that wanted to participate in online gambling,
and then they would place bets online. He would then collect the bets or
pay out whatever the case might be. Not only that, but he handled all of
his transactions in person, so he was directly linked to the online
gambling operation.
