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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
Of course I know there are betting syndicates where they send runners to make very big bets at sports books. I don't believe that this is technically legal, but I don't think anything is done about it.
RouletteMan is technically correct.
As the Las Vegas Review Journal reported a few years ago the Nevada statute "doesn't apply to typical bettors who run wagers for the gang at the office or local sports bar. It's intended for professional groups.
What we are concerned about are those runners who are working for illegal bookmakers, either here or throughout the country, who are being paid to facilitate the illegal bookmaking. That's the reason the illegal messenger betting statute was created in the first place."
And the Feds, . . . in the form of IRS agents, . . . are after big-time tax-evaders and money-launderers and can apply Federal felony charges, or use the threat of such charges, against the runners to get their help in getting the big boys.