Legal Sports Betting Won't Hurt Mob, Say Ex-Gangsters Alite, Lutz
The ongoing debate over whether New Jersey should legalize sports betting must be getting hot. As Steven Stradbrooke notes on CalvinAyre.com , "Nevada’s sportsbooks just had their best football season ever , so is it any wonder New Jersey wants in on the action? Nevada’s $111.5 million in sports betting revenue would have come in especially handy earlier this week, when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie was forced to lower his online gambling annual tax revenue projections by $126 million." 60 Minutes for Showtime is devoting a segment to the tangential question of whether such a move would impact illegal gambling -- or as John Brennan writing for NothJersey.com , describes it, the "considerable illegal bookie industry in the state." "60 Minutes Sports" is running a segment tomorrow night (Wednesday, March 5, at 9 p.m.) to juice-up the debate by including the viewpoints of a couple of mob turncoats who once worked as bookies. John Alite and A...