Evening star., 1948-04-28
Fay Asks Probe of 100 Million Gambling
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WI OlStIlCI COuTC) 10 summon ana
impanel an additional grand jury to
begin investigating these matters
during the April term of court"
Mr.. Fay explained Mr.. Fihelly, Mr..
Murray and himself would share the
task OF assisting the grand jury in
the investigation and acquainting
the jurors with such information as
had come to Mr. Fays attention.
A similar statement was made
public by Mr.. Clark in which he
explained he had authorized Mr.
Fay to proceed because of ''the
gravity, seriousness and interstate
phases of these violations"
Text of Petition.
The text of Mr.. Fays petition fol-
lows:
To the Honorable the Chief Justice
Of the District Court of the United
States for the District of Colum-
bia:
Now comes George Morris Fay
United States attorney in and for
the District of Columbia and under
the provisions of Rule (a) of the
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
which provides:
The court shall order one or more
grand jur'ies to be summoned at
such times as the public interest re-
quires, respectfully represents and
certifles to the Court that the public
interest and the exigencies of the
public service require than an addi-
tional Grand Jury of the United
Columbia be drawn and summoned
forthwith, and empaneled at the
earliest convenient date, to conduct
Investigations of alleged and pos
sible criminal violations in the Dis
trict of Columbia of statutes of the
United States applicable to said
District, for the following reasons: |
Increase in Violations.
The United States Attorney rep
reSents and certifies to the court !
that for some months he has re-
ceived information from sources he
has heretofore found to be and con-
siders reliable, that of recent years
there has been a considerable in
crease in the District of Columbia .
in violations of the various gaming
laws and statutes of the United .
States. then and now in force in .
said District of Columbia, and that
the amount of money paid in the
District of Columbia during the past
year to professional gamblers and
their agents and employees in max
ing unlawful Wagers and bets in the
District of Columbia, exceeds, and
possibly far exceeds, 100000, 900:
that in an endeavor to avoid
detection, arrest, and prosecution
for violation of the District of
Columbia gaming laws. professional
gamblers have reorganized their un-
lawful enterprises, by setting up
their gaming establishments or eS-
sential parts thereof, in nearby
Maryland and Virginia, and from
said establishments in those States,
they control, direct, and assist their
agents, servants and employees, who
are actually in the District of |
Columbia at the time the unlaw-
full wagerS and bets are made |
in said District of Columbia;
that after the unlawful bets and /
wagers have been made as afore-
said, the money received in
making said wagers. and bets is
brought from the District of Colum-
bia to the aforementioned gaming
adjustments in nearby Maryland |
and Virginia; that as a result of this
system and procedure it has been
most difficult for the police to make
arrests and for law-enforcement Of
flcers to obtain successful prosecu-
tions against those engaged in the
various ways aforesaid in violating
the gaming laws of the District of
Columbia, and as a result thereof, |
only a small percentage of those vio-
lating the District of Columbia gam
ing laws are detected, arrested,
and successfully prosecuted: that
he, as United States attorney,
has carefully investigated this in
formation aforementioned which he
received, and as a result of his in
veStigation thereof, believes the
same to be substantially true: that
in addition, during his investiga-
ton of the aforesaid information. /
he has found that the organized
and professional gamblers who daily
violate the gaming statutes applica-
BILE to the District of Columbia,
in order to successfully carry on and
enlarge their unlawful enterprises.
have violated and attempted to
violate numerous other statutes of
the United States applicable to the
District of Columbia; that he like
wise has found that there have
been numerous and constant viola
tions in the District of Columbia,
of the laws of the United States
applicable to said District, by per-
sons who unlaWfully take, mis-
appropriate and convert to their
own use, the money and property of
their employers and others, in order