Alleged Members of Violent Loan Sharking and Illegal Gambling Organization Charged in Philadelphia

by Gary Kopycinski on August 23, 2013

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Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 23, 2013. An indictment was unsealed today charging nine people in a loan sharking and illegal gambling ring allegedly run out of several Philadelphia businesses.

The charges were announced today by Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Edward J. Hanko, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division.