Sentence examples for gambling schemes from inspiring English sources

Calvin Sims (NYT) PHILIPPINES: PRESIDENT URGED TO QUIT Tens of thousands of people marched in several cities calling on President Joseph Estrada to resign over allegations that he has been involved in gambling schemes.

They saw him as running their country like a gangland boss, dispensing favors to friends, buying lavish homes for his various mistresses and raking in kickbacks from tobacco taxes and the profits of illegal gambling schemes.

Donaghy pleaded guilty last August to two felony charges stemming from a gambling scheme.

He said he spoke for "the women and children that are beggared and starving because of this gambling scheme".

In court filings, federal prosecutors have credited Donaghy with providing valuable information about the gambling scheme in which he participated.

But the black cloud Donaghy created nearly engulfed his old friend in July, when a news report heavily implied that Foster was involved in the gambling scheme.

Operating under the guise of a charitable organization for veterans, Allied Veterans of the World leaders were running a $300-million 300-millionblillegaleme, Ms. Bondi said at a news conference.

It has a former referee fresh out of jail for being part of a gambling scheme, had to announce it would investigate claims made by Tim Donaghy in a book it allegedly pressured a publisher not to publish.

Mr. Singson said he was making his accusations after Mr. Estrada had cut him out of the profits of a new legal gambling scheme that was meant to replace the illegal one.

The question: with US unemployment at 17.3% and taxpayers mortgaging the future of the country to save a financial gambling scheme gone awry, exactly why are failures being rewarded?

Between the 1940s and 1970s, pinball was banned in some of the biggest cities in the United States due to claims that it was a mafia-run gambling scheme that was corrupting the youth of America.