Alleged gambling ring head seeks dismissal
By RICH CHOLODOFSKY
The patriarch of a White Oak family charged last summer with operating a multi-county illegal gambling ring contends the criminal case against him should be dismissed for a lack of evidence.
In court documents filed Friday, the attorney for Robert Biros, 83, asked that a preliminary hearing be conducted to review the prosecution’s case.
“The defendant and his counsel have reviewed the substantial amount of discovery provided by the commonwealth and concluded that there is insufficient evidence to make out a … case against this defendant,” according to the court motion filed by defense attorney Lee Markovitz.
Biros, along with his three adult children and a Pittsburgh man, were charged by the state Attorney General’s office last summer following a grand jury investigation into allegations that they ran an illegal video gambling operation over the last three decades at of various local bars and taverns.
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