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Legion passes $1 million mark in total assistance in the history of its program. Written By: PineandLakes Echo Journal | 4:00 am, Apr. 17, 2021 × The Backus American Legion Charitable Gaming Partnership donated a record $95,392 to charitable causes in 2020 and passed the $1 million mark in total assistance in the history of its program. The partnership, consisting of the Legion and its longtime gaming affiliate, Willard’s Saloon & Eatery in Backus, also paid $114,230 in state taxes and another $7,469 in federal taxes, reaching another milestone: $1.1 million in st...

By City News Service Apr 10, 2021 POMONA (CNS) - Three men, including one Los Angeles Police Department officer, were implicated in an illegal football gambling operation and are scheduled to be arraigned on felony charges of bookmaking later this month, authorities announced today. Officer Robert Felix, 50, Francisco Martin Del Campo, 51, and Gabriel Martin Del Campo, 52, allegedly orchestrated the gambling operation in which participants placed high-dollar bets on the outcome of the National Football League's Super Bowl, according to an LAPD statement. All three are facing two counts each ...

By City News Service Apr 10, 2021 POMONA (CNS) - Three men, including one Los Angeles Police Department officer, were implicated in an illegal football gambling operation and are scheduled to be arraigned on felony charges of bookmaking later this month, authorities announced today. Officer Robert Felix, 50, Francisco Martin Del Campo, 51, and Gabriel Martin Del Campo, 52, allegedly orchestrated the gambling operation in which participants placed high-dollar bets on the outcome of the National Football League's Super Bowl, according to an LAPD statement. All three are facing two counts each ...

California Justice Department charges LAPD officer in illegal gambling operation Leila Miller State prosecutors have filed charges against a Los Angeles Police Department officer and two others, accusing them of running an illegal gambling operation where participants placed high bets on the outcome of the Super Bowl. The California Department of Justice’s Fraud and Special Prosecutions section filed felony charges of bookmaking Wednesday against Officer Robert Felix, 49, Francisco Martin del Campo, 52, and Gabriel Martin del Campo, 51, the LAPD said Friday. The alleged inci...

Both the DOJ and LAPD declined to answer questions about the size of the bets involved or the overall dollars at stake. Felix is a 13-year veteran of the police force and was last assigned to the LAPD Transit Services Division, according to a police statement. He is currently assigned to his home with no police powers. Sports betting is allowed in more than a dozen states, including New York and Oregon, but a plan to put legalized betting before California voters on the November 2020 ballot failed last summer. The effort -- expected to be revived in 2022 given hundreds of millions in revenue ...