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   XPost: can.politics, tor.general, alt.true-crime   
   From: gregcarrsober@gmail.com   
      
   Toronto Hells Angel Billy Miller and five alleged associates face a   
   string of gambling charges after police busted an invitation-only   
   Super Bowl party at a Markham banquet hall.   
      
      
   Miller, 49, became president of the London, Ont., chapter after   
   formerly belonging to the Bandidos and Outlaws motorcycle clubs. He   
   and the others — police allege they’re his associates — are all   
   connected to Platinum SB, an offshore betting site (which police say   
   is illegal) in Costa Rica with an active client base in the GTA,   
   police said.   
      
      
   While the company web server is offshore, its muscle is in the GTA and   
   southern Ontario through its biker and mob connections, police said.   
   “What makes it local is how you collect the money,” Acting Supt. Keith   
   Finn of the RCMP said on Monday morning. “You need to be able to back   
   up the threats.”   
      
      
   At the news conference Finn alleged that Antonio (Jelly) Borrelli was   
   a Platinum SB debt collector in 2004, when he paralyzed GTA mother of   
   three Louise Russo with a stray bullet he fired into a North York   
   sandwich shop. It’s alleged he was firing at a mobster with $240,000   
   in gambling debts.   
      
      
   The Super Bowl gambling bust, which broke up the party before halftime   
   at 7 p.m. on Sunday night at Le Parc Banquet Hall, near Leslie St. and   
   Regional Rd. 7, was the largest in memory in the GTA, Finn said.   
      
      
   By Monday morning, police noted some 17,000 hits from confused   
   gamblers on the ring’s website.   
      
      
   Police also collected a heavy safe full of an undisclosed amount of   
   cash as they executed nine search warrants in the GTA and London, Ont.   
      
      
   Police confiscated almost $2.5 million in cash and say plenty more   
   would have been made by the organization through online bets. The ring   
   took wagers on everything from the outcome of the game to who won the   
   opening coin toss, police said.   
      
      
   Supt. Paul Pederson of York Regional Police said funds from illegal   
   gambling are funneled into criminal rackets such as drug trafficking,   
   extortion and prostitution.   
      
      
   Calls and hits on the website were diverted to police.   
      
      
   The bust was made by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit   
   (CFSEU), a multi-force unit dedicated to fighting organized crime.   
      
      
   The Platinum SB site, at least in Canada, has been taken down by   
   authorities. The parties, which have cash raffles of a motorcycles,   
   have been a regular Super Bowl event at the banquet centre, police   
   said.   
      
      
   “This would have been the eighth year,” Finn said.   
      
      
   Facing charges of engaging in bookmaking, participation in a criminal   
   organization, keeping a common gaming house and conspiracy to commit   
   an indictable offence are William Miller, 49, Arno Thomsen, 45, and   
   Shlomo Buchler, 40, all of Toronto; Martin Spruce, 45, of Vaughan; and   
   David Hair, 44, and Andrew Bicelli, 48, both of London, Ont.   
      
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