All you wanted was a chance to sneak away and make a bunch of illegal bets!

In particular, says a sometime Lansky underling, he would regularly place big, illegal bets on horse races, at unusually favorable odds.

While working in a factory in Birmingham he started collecting illegal bets from local people on his motorcycle.

'I told you - it's a bet - nothing illegal.'

Some bad guys had been making illegal bets.

Wexler nodded and asked, "How many of you have made an illegal bet?"

Mr. Wexler, a reformed gambler, says that the amount of illegal bets placed in the state on the game cannot be estimated.

Also accused of having collected illegal bets and organized match fixes for the whole organization.

In his spare time, however, Jamie started to make illegal bets and his debts grew.

There will be friendly and illegal bets ranging nationally into the billions of dollars.