I have two questions:
#1 First a legal question (regarding US laws).
If someone tricked a loanshark or a bookie into thinking that an FBI agent had borrowed money/bet with him and now owes him money so the loanshark/bookie called the FBI agent and started demanding that the agent pay up on his debt, how would the law look upon this?
To be clear, the FBI agent had not actually borrowed money or bet with this guy, but the guy is being made to think that he had, so now he is demanding he be paid on a non-existant debt which he thinks is from gambling or an illegal loan, which are activities he DOES engage in.
Would this be something the guy could be prosecuted for? Or could it be used as proof that he is loansharking/running a sports book?
#2
The impression we get in mob pictures is that when someone is loansharking, running a sports book or a whorehouse everyone in the neighborhood knows about it. I'm wondering, if its that commonly known, why doesn't the FBI just waltz in, make a bet with the guy, take a loan or ask for a hooker and boom, they got em?
Is there any impediment to this?
#1 First a legal question (regarding US laws).
If someone tricked a loanshark or a bookie into thinking that an FBI agent had borrowed money/bet with him and now owes him money so the loanshark/bookie called the FBI agent and started demanding that the agent pay up on his debt, how would the law look upon this?
To be clear, the FBI agent had not actually borrowed money or bet with this guy, but the guy is being made to think that he had, so now he is demanding he be paid on a non-existant debt which he thinks is from gambling or an illegal loan, which are activities he DOES engage in.
Would this be something the guy could be prosecuted for? Or could it be used as proof that he is loansharking/running a sports book?
#2
The impression we get in mob pictures is that when someone is loansharking, running a sports book or a whorehouse everyone in the neighborhood knows about it. I'm wondering, if its that commonly known, why doesn't the FBI just waltz in, make a bet with the guy, take a loan or ask for a hooker and boom, they got em?
Is there any impediment to this?
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