Posted on 10/05/2010 6:45:44 PM PDT by Sparky1776
The wife of US Representative John F. Tierney is poised to plead guilty tomorrow to federal tax charges for managing a bank account that her brother allegedly used to deposit millions of dollars in illegal gambling profits he raked in from an offshore sports betting operation based in Antigua.
Federal prosecutors filed documents that were unsealed today in US District Court in Boston charging Patrice Tierney, 59, who is married to the Salem Democrat, with four counts of aiding and abetting the filing of false tax returns by her brother, Robert Eremian, of St. John's Antigua
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Go Hudak Go!
Massachusetts Ping!
THIS HAS TO HELP!
The wife of US Representative John F. Tierney is poised to plead guilty tomorrow to federal tax charges for managing a bank account that her brother allegedly used to deposit millions of dollars in illegal gambling profits he raked in from an offshore sports betting operation based in Antigua.
Federal prosecutors filed documents that were unsealed today in US District Court in Boston charging Patrice Tierney, 59, who is married to the Salem Democrat, with four counts of aiding and abetting the filing of false tax returns by her brother, Robert Eremian, of St. John’s Antigua.
The shocking thing to me is that they identified the political party as “Democrat” in the second paragraph.
THAT is shocking!
It’s also pleasantly shocking that they didn’t postpone this for one more month, until after the election.
In play, in play!
“identified the political party as “Democrat””
“THAT is shocking!”
I know, I know. Got to enjoy it while it lasts!
Tierney’s fugitive brother, Robert Eremian, and another sibling face charges including racketeering, money laundering and operating an illegal gambling business.
Congressman Tierney says his wife believed that Eremian’s income came from a career in selling or licensing software to legal internet gambling businesses.
Shocking,
but the real question is this:
Was her brother really that good of a gambler, or was the account a payoff account for the congressman?
“they didn’t postpone this for one more month, until after the election.”
I’m thinking perhaps there’s more to come - Barney Frank is all about online, offshore gambling.
Do you think this will get much cover by NECN and MA news programs?
I’m not sure Julie - got a little clue to look around listening to WBZ tonight about something breaking - I’m thinking this is it.
Patrice Tierney, 59, who is married to the Salem DemocratObviously a Demwit, else the headline would have read "Republican Congressman..." Thanks Sparky1776.
Tierney dude’s website says absolutely NOWHERE that he is a friggin’ DemocRAT!!!
“Do you think this will get much cover by NECN and MA news programs?”
It’ll get more coverage on Poker Superstars on Spike.
Thanks for that link Kcvl.
But in the cozy back room of a modern house that once served as the Chinese Embassy, past the lazy dogs in the yard and the bicycles in the driveway, Bob Eremian was entertaining Americans in a different way.
It was two hours before the start of Sunday’s Super Bowl game in San Diego, and Eremian, in short pants and bare feet, was sitting in front of three computer screens, overseeing a sports betting operation that would take over 10,000 bets on the game before the day was over.
“They’re calling from all over the U.S. today,” he said, as the 25 telephone operators seated in front of him quickly logged bets into their computers. “That’s what people want to do,” Eremian said. “Bet on sports.”
Wagering on sports is illegal in the United States, except in Nevada and Oregon. But over the past two years, a small number of bookmakers have packed up their lists of customers and traveled south, along with some first-time bookies, to take refuge in tiny West Indies countries like this one.
Licensed by the local government and using advanced technology to communicate, set odds on games and record wagers, they have created hundreds of jobs for local residents and rapidly built an offshore sports book industry that gaming analysts say is taking in 1 percent to 5 percent of the $100 billion that is bet illegally on sports each year in the United States.
Sad to say, Tierney will be reelected; this is Massachusetts after all.
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