Opinion ID: 419746
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: The Craps Game Scam

Text: 18 Warrington and Sindone and three other men set up a phony craps game in New Jersey to cheat a player out of a substantial sum of money. The scam was successful and the man lost $4500. Warrington, in arranging the scam, stated in an intercepted conversation that Bruno had approved the scam and would intervene if the New York group demanded a share of the profits. This is a reference to an arrangement between the Philadelphia and New York organizations that all New Jersey gambling would be split 50-50. Since the scam was a false, rather than a real operation, Warrington believed that New York was not entitled to its cut. 19 In the course of setting up the scam, Warrington placed two recorded phone calls from his office in Pennsylvania to the victim in New Jersey. This wire fraud was one of the predicate offenses charged against Warrington.