{"id":332,"date":"2021-06-11T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/sports-bettor-finally-admits-to-2004-murder-of-long-island-bookies-runner\/"},"modified":"2021-06-11T14:17:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T11:17:10","slug":"sports-bettor-finally-admits-to-2004-murder-of-long-island-bookies-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/pl\/sports-bettor-finally-admits-to-2004-murder-of-long-island-bookies-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Bettor Finally Admits to 2004 Murder of Long Island Bookie\u2019s Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_34 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Spis tre\u015bci<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1'><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/pl\/sports-bettor-finally-admits-to-2004-murder-of-long-island-bookies-runner\/#Mistrial_Declared\" title=\"Mistrial Declared\">Mistrial Declared<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/pl\/sports-bettor-finally-admits-to-2004-murder-of-long-island-bookies-runner\/#Subhuman_Coward\" title=\"\u2018Subhuman Coward\u2019\">\u2018Subhuman Coward\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>A gambler who took part in the 2004 killing of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/delaware-north-selling-jakes-58-casino-long-island-for-120m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Island<\/a> bookies\u2019 runner has finally admitted his culpability in the case, Newsday reports.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175889\" data-style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-175889 size-full lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/orlando-142x80.jpg?x38396\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/orlando-142x80.jpg?x38396\" alt=\"Mark Orlando\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/orlando.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/orlando-142x80.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/orlando-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/orlando-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" data- title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-175889 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/orlando.jpg?x38396\" alt=\"Mark Orlando\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/orlando.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/orlando-142x80.jpg 142w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/orlando-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/orlando-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">Mark Orlando photographed in 2004, shortly after he helped murder bookies\u2019 runner Bobby Calabrese. (Image: Newsday)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mark Orlando, then 33, lured Bobby Calabrese, 24, to a deserted industrial area in Island Park, between the mainland and the island of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/california-long-beach-raid-suspected-illegal-gambling-11-arrested\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando had promised to hand over a $17,000 gambling debt to the younger man. But he had no intention of paying.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he and another man, Herve Jeannot, ambushed Calabrese. Orlando held the victim while former US Marine Jeannot shot him once in the head with a .44 caliber revolver. Jeannot shot him two more times in the back of the head as he lay on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Orlando hoped he could avoid paying the $17,000 debt he owed Calabrese\u2019s boss by paying $4,000 to Jeannot to carry out the killing instead.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Mistrial_Declared\"><\/span><strong>Mistrial Declared<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Now 50, Orlando admitted this for the first time around two weeks ago, prosecutors said Monday. He confessed before a judge sentenced him to 23 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>He had previously been serving 25 years to life for the second-degree murder of Calabrese. But in 2019, a federal appellate court overturned his original conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The appellate panel ruled a detective\u2019s testimony that Jeannot had stated Orlando paid him to commit the murder violated the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. The clause guarantees a defendant the right \u201cto be confronted with the witnesses against\u201d them and bars the admission of certain hearsay evidence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p><strong>Jeannot committed suicide at the Nassau County Jail in 2010, eight hours after his own conviction for murder.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear what prompted Orlando to plead guilty at his retrial. But prosecutor Stefanie Palma said Monday it proved \u201cwhat everyone has known for the last 16 years, that this defendant had Bobby Calabrese killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Subhuman_Coward\"><\/span><strong>\u2018Subhuman Coward\u2019<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Orlando\u2019s conviction at last ends a long and painful journey for the Calabrese family, who were forced to endure six trials in total over 17 years.<\/p>\n<p>Before Jeannot\u2019s eventual conviction, two of his trials ended in hung juries, and the third was declared a mistrial,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes a subhuman coward to find a sucker to carry out such a sickening act \u2026 You know you are guilty,\u201d the victim\u2019s mother, Kathy Calabrese, told Orlando Monday, as reported by <em>Newsday.<\/em> \u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for you, Bobby would be with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calabrese was a high school wrestling champion, who, despite his fatal flirtation with illegal bookmaking, planned to become a police officer like his father. He was due to take the Long Beach Police Department entrance examination the day after he was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/bettor-finally-admits-to-2004-murder-of-long-island-bookies-runner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Bettor Finally Admits to 2004 Murder of Long Island Bookie\u2019s Runner<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\" target=\"_blank\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gambler who took part in the 2004 killing of a Long Island bookies\u2019 runner has finally admitted his culpability in the case, Newsday reports. Mark Orlando photographed in 2004, shortly after he helped murder bookies\u2019 runner Bobby Calabrese. 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