Barney Frank Pushes For Online Gambling

Congress is considering lifting the ban against internet gambling over the objections of law enforcement as reported by Sewell Chan for The New York Times:
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. has said he would not support efforts to legalize online gambling, a view shared by most state attorneys general. “Because Internet gambling is essentially borderless activity, from a money-laundering and terrorism-financing perspective, it creates a regulatory and enforcement quagmire,” said James F. Dowling, a former special agent with the Internal Revenue Service.
In recent years the feds have busted several individuals allegedly tied to New York City’s Mafia families for their suspected involvement with some online gambling sites.
In the House, Rep. Barney Frank has been the most vocal and passionate proponent to legalize gambling over the internet. Frank, originally from Bayonne, NJ, was profiled last year in a piece by Jeffrey Toobin in The New Yorker, and according to the Congressman “his father was involved with the Mafia”:
“Because Bayonne was such a sleazy place, nobody knew whether Barney was going to wind up in Congress or in jail” [said lawyer Alan Dershowitz]. According to Frank, his father was involved with the Mafia. “[Alfonse Frank] Funzi Tieri, a big-time gangster with the Genovese family, came to my brother David’s bar mitzvah, when I was twenty-three,” he said. Sam Frank died at the age of fifty-three, while Barney was an undergraduate at Harvard, and Barney took a year off to help resolve the family’s tangled financial affairs. “The Mafia guys were very helpful to me at the time,” he said.
According to former Daily News reporter and editor Thomas Collins Jr. in his 2002 memoir NewsWalker, reputed capo Matthew Ianniello — convicted in 1985 for a skimming operation involving several of his gay bars – allegedly “was sponsored into the Genovese crime family by Frank ‘Funzi’ Tieri.”
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