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From: Jasper
Date: 11/26/2004
Time: 9:00:12 PM
Buster, ………People place bets on sporting events all the time though people they know well or people someone they know tells them to contact. If enough people are interested in the event, like the Final Four college basketball tournament or the Words Series, a lot of money is going to bet on the outcome. In large offices and factories there is always somebody who takes the bets. Nobody calls him a bookie or even thinks of him that way. He’s just “Jerry” or “Sam,” the sweeper, the bartender, the office clerk, the desk sergeant at your local police station – regular people you see everyday with regular jobs. ………. Most of these guys are exactly what they appear to be. They just organize pools for big bucks, usually with several ways to win. A 100-dollar bet could give you a chance to make 5,000 dollars, two chances to make 500 and maybe four chances to break even. It depends on the number of people who bet and the creativity of the bet taker. He is usually gets a reasonable cut of the total of amount of money wagered or a reasonable number of free chances to win the grand prize. It’s a lot of work, a lot of responsibility and a big risk because it is against the law. ……….Organized crime gets into the act when “Jerry” or “Sam” agrees to take bets on behalf of “Larry.” Larry is a mobster. Jerry and Sam think he is a regular guy like they are. They trust him and he does most of the work. But if the police bust Jerry or Sam, the won’t get to Larry because his real name is Pete, his address is a phony or it belongs to some other guy who had a legitimate business arrangement with Jake. ………This is why I question Kardashian and O.J.’s involvement in pornography and sports betting in Redondo Beach. I didn’t question it the first time I read Joe’s article because it was so easy to imagine and so hard to believe that Joe Bosco and the people he relied on to get the facts would fail to consider that they were following a trail of evidence laid down by somebody else. You see the same pattern in the evidence RHD detectives and O.J. Simpson’s private investigators followed for their perspective teams. They did what their experience told them to do. They saw the evidence the way their experience taught them to see it and they accepted the MOST LIKELY explanation for what they found. I don’t think they followed up on any unlikely explanation of how a person who knew how they operate could have led them to those conclusions. ……….A professional magician, who called himself The Great Randi, went on a crusade in the ’70s and ’80s to debunk all claims of paranormal powers or unexplained phenomena. He offered a huge reward for anyone who could prove that ESP, telekinesis or anything of the sort existed. He never had to pay because he could duplicate with tricks anything they tried to demonstrate they could do with psychic powers under rigorous scientific conditions devised by experts. He made a fortune on the publicity but all he proved to me was that he was a great illusionist and that he was right about one thing he said and I never forgot. He said, “Experts are the easiest people to fool.” ……..They are, if you know how they think and plan your deception accordingly. –Jasper