A former Xaverian High School baseball coach was cuffed today in a sweeping crackdown on mob-run sports betting rings that netted $20 million annually. Gerard Bruzzese, 46, who volunteered as the Bay Ridge Catholic school’s freshman baseball coach, was allegedly a ringleader of nysportswager.com, an illegal site run by the Genovese crime family. The Web site raked in $17 million over the course of the two-year sting, prosecutors said. Four other illegal gambling rings, some of which allowed tech-savvy mobsters to take bets online and by text message, were broken up using undercover cops and wiretapping, said Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes yesterday. Sixteen mobsters were arrested in "Operation Bettor Days." Bruzzese faces up to 69 years in jail if convicted. Dennis Canale, 67, Xaverian’s head coach who resigned last year and was also under investigation in the multimillion-dollar scheme, was not indicted today.
This is just awesome. What a genius idea. Coaching freshman baseball to front an illegal gambling website. He doesn't even have to show up for work til 3:00PM during the spring, plus no work over summer. Sign me up. Diddy runs the city……NOT. I always knew high school coaching jobs were a front.
Note: "Operation Bettor Days?" Really Charles Hynes, really? Couldn't come up with a better one than that? That's a just lazy.
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