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Bobby Kennedy, the Mob, and Sports Betting Today

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Bobby Kennedy, the Mob, and Sports Betting Today
Senator Robert Kennedy speaking at an election rally in 1968. Harry Benson/Express/Getty Images
Ronald J. Rychlak
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A 1957 raid finally convinced FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that there was such a thing as organized crime, but not until President John F. Kennedy appointed his younger brother, Robert (or Bobby), as attorney general did the federal government get serious about taking it on.

Ronald J. Rychlak
Ronald J. Rychlak
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Ronald J. Rychlak is the Jamie L. Whitten chair in law and government at the University of Mississippi. He is the author of several books, including “Hitler, the War, and the Pope,” “Disinformation” (co-authored with Ion Mihai Pacepa), and “The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East” (co-edited with Jane Adolphe).
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