Tag: Hawaii gambling ring
Hawaii to Costa Rica multi-million dollar internet gambling ring
April 24, 2014
Hawaii News Now – We are learning more details about the take down of a multi-million dollar illegal internet gambling ring. An undercover officer worked for a year to nail 26 key players in the high stakes sports betting scheme that stretched from Hawaii to Costa Rica. Defense Attorney Megan Kau told Hawaii News Now, “For most of these defendants, when their houses were searched, their computers were found. The computers are in their house, the link. That coupled with the fact the government has the records, is difficult to defend.” Kau represented the first two people sentenced in the…