U.S. v. HAMMES

No. 92-3819.

3 F.3d 1081 (1993)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Quinten A. HAMMES, Jr., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 26, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan A. Fishbach, U.S. Atty. (argued), Milwaukee, WI, for plaintiff-appellee.

Thomas E. Brown (argued), Marna M. Tess-Mattner, Kathryn A. Keppel, Gimbel, Reilly, Guerin & Brown, Milwaukee, WI, for defendant-appellant.

Before CUMMINGS, COFFEY and MANION, Circuit Judges.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

In the idiom of his trade, Quinten A. Hammes, Jr. was a big-time bookie. He ran a large computerized clearinghouse for bets on sporting events out of Racine, Wisconsin and an offshore money-laundering scheme to shelter his profits from taxation. Hammes' central exchange took telephone and fax bets from "wire rooms" all across southeastern Wisconsin, processing the results by computer. It was a high-volume, sophisticated operation employing...

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