I would say, the amount of gambling on professional sports by professional athletes today versus years ago is probably the same, the difference is now most of the gambling is done thru legal sportsbooks making it far easier to catch people gambling that should not be gambling.
Years ago, sports gambling was done thru organized crime, today it’s done thru legal sportsbooks that are regulated.
“Years ago, sports gambling was done thru organized crime, today it’s done thru legal sportsbooks that are regulated”
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You might want to tune in to Fox News right now. The FBI is holding a press conference right now and they are naming several factions of the mafia that are right in the middle of.
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The Bonanno, Gambino and Genovese crime families have all been named.
Professional athletes and coaches gambling through “legal sportsbooks” would be a major problem for these sports leagues, but it probably wouldn’t even be a crime anyway. So the FBI involvement is almost certainly related to other criminal activities related to this gambling.