Four Men, Two Businesses Indicted in $3.5 Million Illegal Gambling Operation

KANSAS CITY, MO—Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that three Kansas City, Mo., men, a Parkville, Mo., man and two businesses in Arizona and Costa Rica have been indicted by a federal grand jury for operating an illegal gambling business that relied on a website with a computer server located in Costa Rica.

Gerlarmo Cammisano, also known as "Jerry," 56, James J. Moretina, 60, and Michael J. Lombardo, 54, all of Kansas City, James L. Dicapo, 57, of Parkville, Phoenix International Teleport Satellite Services, Inc., located in Chandler, Ariz., and Elite Sports, located in San Jose, Costa Rica, were charged in a 23-count indictment returned under seal by a federal grand jury on Tuesday, March 9, 2010. That indictment was unsealed and made public today following the arrests of the four individual defendants.