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• n  a gambler who accepts and pays off bets (especially on horse races)

• Nick Keart is a small Syrian, a "bookie" at the racetrack.
• Later, Connolly claimed: "I am not a bookie.
• Dublin bookie Paddy Power says he covered 30,000 bets totaling $1.

• bookmaker

News & Articles

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• Bookie Describes Being Forced to Pay Bulger Gang
  Bookie describes being forced to pay Bulger gang in Mass. or risk getting hurt        
  June 14, 2013 - ABC News
• Bookie: Forced to pay Bulger gang
  A bookmaker testifying in the racketeering trial of James "Whitey" Bulger has told jurors he once saw Bulger threaten to kill a bookie who tried to stop paying Bulger's gang and go into business for himself.
  June 14, 2013 - WPRI Providence
• Bookie on disobeying Whitey: ‘You could end up in the hospital’
  James “Whitey” Bulger and his crew shook down bookmakers for up to $1,000 a month in rent and controlled the sports-betting racket with an iron fist in the 1970s and ’80s, an Dorchester-bred bookie testified today at Bulger’s murder and racketeering trial. James Katz, 72, said Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi’s syndicate charged $1,000 a month in “rent” during the NFL season and $500 the ...
  June 14, 2013 - Boston Herald

Quotes

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• Younis Khan in AFP
  Pakistan captain Younus Khan told the Geo television station: "No bookie has approached me. If ever one does, I will catch him and hand him over to the ICC because these people have destroyed the game."
• Claire McCaskill in BusinessWeek
  You are the bookie, you are the house,said Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat. "You had less oversight than a pit boss in Las Vegas."
• Raymond Kelly in renewamerica.us
  This history of violence has been abetted, often unwittingly, by people who see nothing wrong with placing a bet with a mobbed-up bookie,Commissioner Kelly added. "I commend detectives from our Vice Enforcement Division, who in a related...