A second defendant in the speakeasy illegal gambling case has pleaded guilty, SeattleCrime reports:
Ian McNamara pleaded guilty to two counts of 2nd degree professional gambling earlier today.
McNamara is scheduled to be sentenced on June 17th.
McNamara and six other men were charged as part of a two-year SPD and federal investigation into an illegal gambling ring operating out of several speakeasies in Seattle, which led to a $217, 000 drug bust–which police sources tell us had an estimated street value in the millions.
Last week, McNamara’s co-defendant, William Donnell, also plead guilty to gambling charges and was sentenced to 50 hours of community service and a $500 fine.
Isn’t this that ridiculous case where the cops and feds used an obscene amount of resources to basically catch no one of anything except weenie charges…they tack on the “drug bust” to make it sound good, but that bust was really only due to D-U-M-B luck and really not a result of the “sting” but rather what basically amounts to entrapment? Is that this case? I know the media keeps trying to make it sound all exotic, but read the Stranger (or was it Seattle Weekly?) expose about it. Really paints the whole thing in a different light.