Gambling Ring Bust Lands Fairfax Tax Worker In Jail

This is the time of the year when sports gambling rings are busted around the country. The authorities have spent all year undercover trying to get as much information as possible, and between now and the Super Bowl is when the arrests start to happen.

One of those gambling operations was busted up on Thursday in Fairfax County, Virginia. A Department of Tax Administration employee was arrested and charged with running a sports gambling operation.

Diane ThanhDiep Tran was arrested in her office this past week. Authorities charged her not only with the sports operation charge, but also with a charge of money laundering. The laundering charge is one that usually runs hand in hand with any sports betting related busts.

"At this time of year, we are going to see more and more of these undercover sting operations in the US. The police are very good at working undercover within these gambling operations, and then making headlines with these busts at the end of the season," said Mario Plumarter.

Tran has been working at the tax office for almost four years. She has not been in trouble in that time up until the point of her arrest on Thursday.

December 20, 2008
Posted By Terry Goodwin
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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