Maine man pleads guilty in illegal gambling case, to turn over mansion, other properties to feds
A Portland man pleaded guilty Wednesday to running a multi-million dollar gambling ring for more than a decade and has agreed to turn over more than a dozen properties to the federal government.
Stephen Mardigan, 61, entered the plea at U.S. District Court more than a year after FBI agents seized hundreds of thousands of dollars in a series of raids that first brought the investigation to public light.
He faces charges of illegal gambling, money laundering and filing a false tax return.
Mardigan committed these crimes, court documents state, as the head of a high-stakes sports betting syndicate that had operated in Portland since at least 2003 and could spit out more than $2,000 in revenue in any single day. The FBI wiretapped two of his phones and caught him accepting illegal bets last spring, according to court records.
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