Thirteen gambling ring suspects appear in court
By Renatta Signorini and Paul Peirce
For more than half a century, law enforcement has tied Robert “Bobby I” Iannelli to illegal sports betting and numbers lotteries throughout Western Pennsylvania.
Now 88, Iannelli, of Wexford, along with his son, Rodney “Rusty” Iannelli, 58, of Pittsburgh, is once again accused of heading a widespread gambling operation that prosecutors said brought in “tens of thousands of dollars a week.”
On Thursday, the pair — along with 11 others — were to be arraigned on charges filed last week by the state attorney general’s office involving illegal sports bookmaking and lotteries dating back to 2015.
“We just received the paperwork today,” said Duke George, who is representing the elder Iannelli. “We have to go through the discovery process and see where we legally go forward from here.”
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