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The gambling operation involved agents or “package holders,” each of whom brought in bets from a group of gamblers. The enterprise and all of its packages involved hundreds or even thousands of gamblers. Records showed that one highrolling gambler wagered more than $2 million in a twomonth period. The arrests include package holders as well as individuals who allegedly acted as collectors for the operation, collecting and paying out wins and losses.The illicit proceeds allegedly were divided by the package holders and the members they worked under, such as the Pernas, Cetta and Tacetta, who in turn made “tribute” payments to the New York bosses of the family, including DiNapoli and Madonna. It is charged that collection operations at times took the form of threats or acts of violence. At other times, debtors were allegedly forced to take loans at annual interest rates reaching higher than 200 percent, in violation of New Jersey’s criminal usury statute, or were forced to refinance their homes.

 

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