If a flat tyre isn’t the visual metaphor you need, he’s also assembling his new drone in the carparks as he talks, after the old one was totalled in a previous video. It’s all thematic though – while he waits for a Walmart employee to pull a screw out of his inner tube, it sets him off thinking about variance in life and poker. Simultaneous arrests were also made around the country in Arizona, Iowa, New Jersey, New Mexico, and Pennsylvania.Vlog’s general theme of generalized technological disaster, Andrew Neeme’s latest YouTube video starts with a flat tyre and the sweeping adventure of how he gets his wheels back in casino commuting order. The FBI raided both card rooms and seized over a half of million in cash in player's sport book accounts. Losing sportsbettors often wrote checks directly to the casinos.įat Dave and associates got careless discussing the details of their operation in the wide open because the FBI has damaging evidence via two years of wire taps. Local winners were often paid out with poker chips from either card room. His customer base included over 360 accounts and serviced clients in Canada, Mexico, the U.S., and the Caribbean.

During a pre-dawn raid, the FBI shut down Palomar and Seven Mile.įat Dave's offshore sportsbook handled approximately $2 million per month in wagers. In addition to running a high-end prostitution ring and general bookmaking (utilizing an online sportsbook hosted offshore), proceeds in excess of $10 million were laundered through various shell companies and two popular San Diego-based card rooms – The Seven Mile Casino and the Palomar Card Club.

The Feds believe that the lead defendant in the case and established bookie from San Diego, David “Fat Dave” Stroj, has links to the Philadelphia mafia.Īfter gathering evidence for two years, the FBI arrested 25 people in six different states in conjunction with Fat Dave's illegal gambling operation that hosted high-stakes poker games and backroom casino host in various mansions in some of San Diego's wealthiest neighborhoods. The FBI busted up a lucrative illegal gambling ring on Wednesday in San Diego, California.

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