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17-12-2004, 06:19
Police Raid New York Tracks
Agents from the New York State Attorney General’s Office & state police “carrying search warrants raided Aqueduct, Belmont Park & Saratoga Race Course, more than 4 years after a raid of the New York Racing Association’s 3 tracks precipitated a federal indictment & the biggest crisis in NYRA’s history,” reported thoroughbredtimes.com.
The target of the current investigation “which reportedly has been on-going for months, apparently involves whether horses carried the correct weights assigned for races”.
Investigators arrived at Saratoga at 8.15am & Aqueduct around 10.30am. NYRA chief executive Charlie Hayward confirmed investigators at Aqueduct “visited the racing office & the jockeys' room” & “searched the desk of the clerk of scales & made copies of index files & jockey weigh-in sheets”.
Spokesmen for the Attorney General’s Office “would neither confirm nor deny if the raids were connected to the one in 2000, which ultimately led to the arrest & conviction of 19 pari-mutuel clerks, the indictment of 2 former NYRA department heads, the forced resignation of NYRA President Terry Meyocks, a US$3 million fine & an 18-month deferred federal prosecution arrangement (announced in December 2003) that keeps NYRA’s activities under the eye of a court approved monitor”. (Dec 17)
http://www.breedingracing.com/
Agents from the New York State Attorney General’s Office & state police “carrying search warrants raided Aqueduct, Belmont Park & Saratoga Race Course, more than 4 years after a raid of the New York Racing Association’s 3 tracks precipitated a federal indictment & the biggest crisis in NYRA’s history,” reported thoroughbredtimes.com.
The target of the current investigation “which reportedly has been on-going for months, apparently involves whether horses carried the correct weights assigned for races”.
Investigators arrived at Saratoga at 8.15am & Aqueduct around 10.30am. NYRA chief executive Charlie Hayward confirmed investigators at Aqueduct “visited the racing office & the jockeys' room” & “searched the desk of the clerk of scales & made copies of index files & jockey weigh-in sheets”.
Spokesmen for the Attorney General’s Office “would neither confirm nor deny if the raids were connected to the one in 2000, which ultimately led to the arrest & conviction of 19 pari-mutuel clerks, the indictment of 2 former NYRA department heads, the forced resignation of NYRA President Terry Meyocks, a US$3 million fine & an 18-month deferred federal prosecution arrangement (announced in December 2003) that keeps NYRA’s activities under the eye of a court approved monitor”. (Dec 17)
http://www.breedingracing.com/