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<header id="a-headers"> ‘Dangerous Odds’ tells story of woman’s life inside an illegal sports-betting operation worth billions

Marisa Lankester details her involvement in the billion-dollar betting operation led by Rob ‘The Cigar’ Sacco in her new book ‘Dangerous Odds.’ During her time in the operation, Lankester married Sacco’s head of operations, got imprisoned in a ‘medieval hellhole’ in the Dominican Republic, and was repeatedly raped by a general in the secret police.

BY Sherryl Connelly
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, May 18, 2014, 2:30 AM
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Adriano Vigano, CH-Kloten Marisa Lankester tells all in her new book 'Dangerous Odds: My Secret Life Inside an Illegal Billion Dollar Sports Betting Operation.' </figure>
The good little Catholic-school girl from New Rochelle grew up to become a hot blond bookie on the lam from the FBI in the Dominican Republic.
In the new book “Dangerous Odds: My Secret Life Inside an Illegal Billion Dollar Sports Betting Operation,” Marisa Lankester tells about the harrowing journey that saw her play a key role in the creation of the first offshore gambling empire — one steeped in mob ties — before she was imprisoned in a “medieval hellhole” in the Dominican Republic and repeatedly raped by a general in the secret police.
Nothing in Lankester’s proper upbringing in Westchester County foretold her life of criminal chaos. Her father worked for the United Nations and, like any student at the Ursuline School, her young life was a routine of lessons from ballet to piano.
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While she was attending Marymount Manhattan College, her parents divorced and the pressure of dealing with her mother’s almost deranged reaction became too much. Lankester transferred to the University of British Columbia — her parents had met in Vancouver — but soon dropped out.
Adrift in life, she took up endurance sports car racing as a passion. Her co-driver brought her to Los Angeles in 1986 and arranged a job for her at a sports-betting operation. He rigged the phone lines for the outfit and thought the lithe 23-year-old could pick up easy money.
She didn’t know that she had stumbled into the employ of Ron (The Cigar) Sacco, America’s No. 1 bookie.
A “60 Minutes” exposé would later identify Sacco as the mastermind behind the biggest and most successful illegal sports-betting operation in history, one the FBI claimed took in $100 million a month. Sacco used what was then cutting-edge technology — toll-free 800 numbers — to serve the nation’s gamblers.
Lankester soon became essential to the operation. She married Sacco’s head of operations, Tony Ballestrasse, and had a daughter with him. She was also swept up in her first police raid. Bail arrived at the jail before she did. Sacco took care of his own, until he didn’t. Much worse was to come in the Dominican Republic.
After the LAPD cracked down, Sacco moved his operation to Las Vegas and Staten Island, where bookmaking was only a misdemeanor. But he was now the target of an FBI investigation. Both operations were shut down. The criminal residue of Ballestrasse’s newly earned convictions left him no choice but to follow Sacco’s orders and relocate to the Dominican Republic, where gambling was legal.
But not, as it turned out, beyond the law.
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Sacco pioneered the first offshore sports-betting operation through his 1-800 network. It was worth billions — and the FBI was hell-bent on bringing him down.
Though Santo Domingo, the country’s capital, was a hellhole of corruption and poverty, and her husband was snorting cocaine and hitting the bottle hard, Lankester was able to cobble a life together. She even found work on the Robert Redford movie “Havana,” where, she says, she came close to having an affair with the actor Richard Portnow. In period costumes, the two flirted heavily for several days, positioned behind Redford at a card table while he portrayed an American in a high-stakes poker game as the revolution loomed.
Lankester was driven to obtain a quickie divorce when her husband’s cocaine-fueled behavior became too erratic to bear.
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She was at the office, a villa, when armed soldiers came through the door. An FBI-inspired dragnet targeting another gambling kingpin had managed to sweep up Sacco’s people as well. But the secret police, a covert arm of the Policia Nacional, took control of the “investigation” and turned it toward their own ends.
Lankester’s first hint that she was in even more danger than she had been aware of came when she heard a voice she recognized outside the door of the room where she was being interrogated by two members of the secret police, one of whom held the rank of general.
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Marisa Lankester's new book details life inside an illegal betting-operation. </figure>
The voice belonged to an FBI agent she had encountered before, who had found grounds to chase Sacco to Santo Domingo. The general pinned Lankester to the wall, hand over her mouth, so she couldn’t alert the special agent that she was there.
The secret police had seen the huge amount of money that flowed into Information Unlimited and decided to take control, wresting it from the scrutiny of the FBI. Lankester was sent home, lucky not to be in jail herself but determined to send meals to the 25 company clerks — bookies — who were still in prison. When she finally gained access to the men in the Palacio de Justicia she saw none of the food she had slaved to prepare day after day got past the well-fed guards. The clerks were filthy and skeletal, obviously starved.
The general first raped her after he showed up at her home late one night and ordered her to open the gate. She remembers the cool of the marble floor where she lay pinned under him and how he disdainfully tossed a condom on it before he walked away.
He returned again and again. She tried to rationalize the horror by reminding herself that the jailed clerks were now being housed and fed decently by the general’s favor.
The sports-betting operation reopened with heavy payoffs to the secret police now factored into the bottom line. Then Sacco gave a disastrous interview on “60 Minutes.” On it, the FBI claimed that Sacco operated only with the approval of “New York’s Gambino crime family and its recently jailed boss, John Gotti.”
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Adriano Vigano/CH-Kloten Lankester knew she had no life waiting for her in the United States and she wasn't going back. </figure>
Sacco would later be charged with using intimidation tactics to collect from slow-paying customers. The mob was presumably good for muscle.
The new notoriety brought a slew of new players to the 800 number, and business boomed as never before. Lankester went back to modeling, garnering more glamorous jobs and making a splash in the local press as she strutted the catwalk at society events.
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Nina Berman for New York Daily News The FBI claimed Sacco operated with the approval of John Gotti (pictured). </figure>
But this formerly good girl had gone very wrong in life.
The U.S threatened to cut off aid to the Dominican Republic if Sacco weren’t brought to heel. The “60 Minutes” interview had backfired, making his billion-dollar offshore operation into a notorious must-bust. Sacco and Ballestrasse were already in the wind when Lankester was arrested.
She was incarcerated in the Palacio de Justicia, a “medieval hellhole.” A sleepless two weeks passed with no word from anyone until she was approached by two FBI agents. Sacco and Ballestrasse had been apprehended. Lankester was promised a deal if she agreed to testify against Sacco.
She said yes, but she was lying. Lankester had no life waiting for her in the United States. She wasn’t going back.
On the morning she appeared in court to have the lesser charges that put her in prison as an intimidation tactic dropped, she was accompanied by two FBI agents. After the proceedings she insisted that, covered in prison grime, she had to visit the bathroom.
There she changed into clothes and a wig her Dominican housekeeper had smuggled in and gave the agents a wild chase through the courthouse. Her little girl was waiting for her in the getaway car.
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Courtesy of Marisa Lankester Lankester modeled and made a splash in the local press as she strutted the catwalk at society events. </figure>
According to Lankester, one agent was at the car door when she floored it into traffic. Eventually, six former employees testified against Sacco, who received the longest sentence ever imposed on a bookmaker. He served 51/2 years while Ballestrasse drew three years of house arrest.
Afterward, both allegedly returned to offshore gambling operations. Lankester remained in the Dominican Republic until 1996. She now lives in Switzerland and finally feels free to tell her story.
“Ron Sacco would not stoop to threaten or hurt a woman,” she writes, “Not even me.”


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Marisa Lankester details her involvement in the billion-dollar betting operation led by Rob ‘The Cigar’ Sacco in her new book ‘Dangerous Odds.’ During her time in the operation, Lankester married Sacco’s head of operations, got imprisoned in a ‘medieval hellhole’ in the Dominican Republic, and was repeatedly raped by a general in the secret police.

BY SHERRYL CONNELLY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, May 18, 2014, 2:30 AM

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Marisa Lankester tells all in her new book 'Dangerous Odds: My Secret Life Inside an Illegal Billion Dollar Sports Betting Operation.'</figure>

The good little Catholic-school girl from New Rochelle grew up to become a hot blond bookie on the lam from the FBI in the Dominican Republic.


In the new book “Dangerous Odds: My Secret Life Inside an Illegal Billion Dollar Sports Betting Operation,” Marisa Lankester tells about the harrowing journey that saw her play a key role in the creation of the first offshore gambling empire — one steeped in mob ties — before she was imprisoned in a “medieval hellhole” in the Dominican Republic and repeatedly raped by a general in the secret police.


Nothing in Lankester’s proper upbringing in Westchester County foretold her life of criminal chaos. Her father worked for the United Nations and, like any student at the Ursuline School, her young life was a routine of lessons from ballet to piano.


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COURTESY OF MARISA LANKESTER

While she was attending Marymount Manhattan College, her parents divorced and the pressure of dealing with her mother’s almost deranged reaction became too much. Lankester transferred to the University of British Columbia — her parents had met in Vancouver — but soon dropped out.


Adrift in life, she took up endurance sports car racing as a passion. Her co-driver brought her to Los Angeles in 1986 and arranged a job for her at a sports-betting operation. He rigged the phone lines for the outfit and thought the lithe 23-year-old could pick up easy money.


She didn’t know that she had stumbled into the employ of Ron (The Cigar) Sacco, America’s No. 1 bookie.
A “60 Minutes” exposé would later identify Sacco as the mastermind behind the biggest and most successful illegal sports-betting operation in history, one the FBI claimed took in $100 million a month. Sacco used what was then cutting-edge technology — toll-free 800 numbers — to serve the nation’s gamblers.


Lankester soon became essential to the operation. She married Sacco’s head of operations, Tony Ballestrasse, and had a daughter with him. She was also swept up in her first police raid. Bail arrived at the jail before she did. Sacco took care of his own, until he didn’t. Much worse was to come in the Dominican Republic.


After the LAPD cracked down, Sacco moved his operation to Las Vegas and Staten Island, where bookmaking was only a misdemeanor. But he was now the target of an FBI investigation. Both operations were shut down. The criminal residue of Ballestrasse’s newly earned convictions left him no choice but to follow Sacco’s orders and relocate to the Dominican Republic, where gambling was legal.


But not, as it turned out, beyond the law.
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Sacco pioneered the first offshore sports-betting operation through his 1-800 network. It was worth billions — and the FBI was hell-bent on bringing him down.


Though Santo Domingo, the country’s capital, was a hellhole of corruption and poverty, and her husband was snorting cocaine and hitting the bottle hard, Lankester was able to cobble a life together. She even found work on the Robert Redford movie “Havana,” where, she says, she came close to having an affair with the actor Richard Portnow. In period costumes, the two flirted heavily for several days, positioned behind Redford at a card table while he portrayed an American in a high-stakes poker game as the revolution loomed.


Lankester was driven to obtain a quickie divorce when her husband’s cocaine-fueled behavior became too erratic to bear.


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John Gotti, at his arraignment with his lawyer, Bruce Cutler.</figure>

She was at the office, a villa, when armed soldiers came through the door. An FBI-inspired dragnet targeting another gambling kingpin had managed to sweep up Sacco’s people as well. But the secret police, a covert arm of the Policia Nacional, took control of the “investigation” and turned it toward their own ends.


Lankester’s first hint that she was in even more danger than she had been aware of came when she heard a voice she recognized outside the door of the room where she was being interrogated by two members of the secret police, one of whom held the rank of general.


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Marisa Lankester's new book details life inside an illegal betting-operation.</figure>

The voice belonged to an FBI agent she had encountered before, who had found grounds to chase Sacco to Santo Domingo. The general pinned Lankester to the wall, hand over her mouth, so she couldn’t alert the special agent that she was there.


The secret police had seen the huge amount of money that flowed into Information Unlimited and decided to take control, wresting it from the scrutiny of the FBI. Lankester was sent home, lucky not to be in jail herself but determined to send meals to the 25 company clerks — bookies — who were still in prison. When she finally gained access to the men in the Palacio de Justicia she saw none of the food she had slaved to prepare day after day got past the well-fed guards. The clerks were filthy and skeletal, obviously starved.


The general first raped her after he showed up at her home late one night and ordered her to open the gate. She remembers the cool of the marble floor where she lay pinned under him and how he disdainfully tossed a condom on it before he walked away.
He returned again and again. She tried to rationalize the horror by reminding herself that the jailed clerks were now being housed and fed decently by the general’s favor.


The sports-betting operation reopened with heavy payoffs to the secret police now factored into the bottom line. Then Sacco gave a disastrous interview on “60 Minutes.” On it, the FBI claimed that Sacco operated only with the approval of “New York’s Gambino crime family and its recently jailed boss, John Gotti.”


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ADRIANO VIGANO/CH-KLOTEN
Lankester knew she had no life waiting for her in the United States and she wasn't going back.</figure>

Sacco would later be charged with using intimidation tactics to collect from slow-paying customers. The mob was presumably good for muscle.


The new notoriety brought a slew of new players to the 800 number, and business boomed as never before. Lankester went back to modeling, garnering more glamorous jobs and making a splash in the local press as she strutted the catwalk at society events.


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The FBI claimed Sacco operated with the approval of John Gotti (pictured).</figure>

But this formerly good girl had gone very wrong in life.


The U.S threatened to cut off aid to the Dominican Republic if Sacco weren’t brought to heel. The “60 Minutes” interview had backfired, making his billion-dollar offshore operation into a notorious must-bust. Sacco and Ballestrasse were already in the wind when Lankester was arrested.


She was incarcerated in the Palacio de Justicia, a “medieval hellhole.” A sleepless two weeks passed with no word from anyone until she was approached by two FBI agents. Sacco and Ballestrasse had been apprehended. Lankester was promised a deal if she agreed to testify against Sacco.


She said yes, but she was lying. Lankester had no life waiting for her in the United States. She wasn’t going back.


On the morning she appeared in court to have the lesser charges that put her in prison as an intimidation tactic dropped, she was accompanied by two FBI agents. After the proceedings she insisted that, covered in prison grime, she had to visit the bathroom.


There she changed into clothes and a wig her Dominican housekeeper had smuggled in and gave the agents a wild chase through the courthouse. Her little girl was waiting for her in the getaway car.


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COURTESY OF MARISA LANKESTER
Lankester modeled and made a splash in the local press as she strutted the catwalk at society events.</figure>

According to Lankester, one agent was at the car door when she floored it into traffic. Eventually, six former employees testified against Sacco, who received the longest sentence ever imposed on a bookmaker. He served 51/2 years while Ballestrasse drew three years of house arrest.


Afterward, both allegedly returned to offshore gambling operations. Lankester remained in the Dominican Republic until 1996. She now lives in Switzerland and finally feels free to tell her story.


“Ron Sacco would not stoop to threaten or hurt a woman,” she writes, “Not even me.”
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No real interest in reading about this story that happened 30 years ago when 1-800 numbers were revolutionary...

Rather read about the industry as it is now
 

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that was entertaining, ill get thebook... can't imagine being imprisoned and repeatedly raped... but good post, if anyone reads the book before I get to it, let me know if you recommend it
 

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No real interest in reading about this story that happened 30 years ago when 1-800 numbers were revolutionary...

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I was thinking the same thing. It would probably be more interesting 10 years ago.
 
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is this the story of CRIS ?

Yes it is....I know the girl in question very well and her husband....

I really think the rape is a fabrication because when they arrested us they let all the women go the same day....I hope she tells the true story of her cheating on her husband in the Dominican....

14 of us went through 40 days and nights in 6 different federal and state joints back in 91/92...I was one of the 14....maybe I should write a book....

Hopefully I get ahold of a copy and check it out....
 
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No real interest in reading about this story that happened 30 years ago when 1-800 numbers were revolutionary...

Rather read about the industry as it is now

That's a shame....back then everyone paid on both sides of the counter...nowadays too many stiffs and wannabe bookmakers....
 

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Yes it is....I know the girl in question very well and her husband....

I really think the rape is a fabrication because when they arrested us they let all the women go the same day....I hope she tells the true story of her cheating on her husband in the Dominican....

14 of us went through 40 days and nights in 6 different federal and state joints back in 91/92...I was one of the 14....maybe I should write a book....

Hopefully I get ahold of a copy and check it out....
thought so, hoping some of the story was "embellished"
 

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Yes it is....I know the girl in question very well and her husband....

I really think the rape is a fabrication because when they arrested us they let all the women go the same day....I hope she tells the true story of her cheating on her husband in the Dominican....

14 of us went through 40 days and nights in 6 different federal and state joints back in 91/92...I was one of the 14....maybe I should write a book....

Hopefully I get ahold of a copy and check it out....

Gesus. Please write a book.. you have got some monolithic nuggets to share!!
 

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That's a shame....back then everyone paid on both sides of the counter...nowadays too many stiffs and wannabe bookmakers....

VD let me say that if you wrote a book I would buy it in advance. From what I can tell you are a man of integrity and would do the story justice.
 

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Just ordered the book, $20, wtf, spent worse $20's...

never er met the VD ( I don't think ), but we have many mutual acquantinces....

he even goes back to my AC days, racetrack...

if VD is around, ask him if he knows my uncle Jimmy, Jimmy Lombardi,

worked the $50 window at AC at worker Liberty Bell after, punching tickets back then...

jimmy was a classic, worked the window, his handle was more than everybody else's, and when he had a
bad day, he was either short, or borrowed from "hump", but when he scored, next flight to Florida Gulfstream Park
 

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Yes it is....I know the girl in question very well and her husband....

I really think the rape is a fabrication because when they arrested us they let all the women go the same day....I hope she tells the true story of her cheating on her husband in the Dominican....

14 of us went through 40 days and nights in 6 different federal and state joints back in 91/92...I was one of the 14....maybe I should write a book....

Hopefully I get ahold of a copy and check it out....

I was wondering if you knew her. I wasn't going to ask since I didn't know if you wanted anyone to know your former cohorts. I'm glad you brought it up.

VD, please write a book.
 

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I was wondering if you knew her. I wasn't going to ask since I didn't know if you wanted anyone to know your former cohorts. I'm glad you brought it up.

VD, please write a book.

ask VD if he knows my uncle Jimmy Lombardi, would be great ( true ) stories if he does.
read and watch a lot, whatever VD says, I verify, ..he's been there
 
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ask VD if he knows my uncle Jimmy Lombardi, would be great ( true ) stories if he does.
read and watch a lot, whatever VD says, I verify, ..he's been there

Probably knew him by sight....will be in the AC area the first 3 weeks in August....
 

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ask VD if he knows my uncle Jimmy Lombardi, would be great ( true ) stories if he does.
read and watch a lot, whatever VD says, I verify, ..he's been there

Jimmy Lombardi , shit VD knows Vance Lombardi( and no that's not a typo. Vance was Vince's 20 year older non documented step brother
apparently pretty sharp, taught VD the ropes early on, shaped him into the brilliant genius we all know and love today.

I think he does know a few Jimmies though,

"The Greek"
"Hoffa"
"super fly Snooka"
"Smits"
"Smith"
"old coworker"
"Hendrix"
"Morrison"

and of course the one Jim he's never met and only heard of (spelt differently. )

"The Gym"

coo coo coo

miss you bro, if I ever have the privilege of your company again, I will personally get that trophy to you, even if I have to carve it from a cantelope or a bar of soap. If you see me again, you will have same day.
 

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