Federal prosecutors: Draper was hub of laundering money from illegal gambling

Draper, Utah is far removed from the fast pace and moving lights of the Las Vegas gambling machine, and that's what seven Vegas residents were banking on when they set up a multi-million dollar money laundering service for illegal Internet gambling operations, federal prosecutors said Friday.

In a 34-count indictment unsealed Friday, federal prosecutors contend that seven Las Vegas residents had set up an elaborate laundering service to scrub clean illegal Internet gambling proceeds using a series of overseas bank accounts and computer servers that were fed into several Utah-based companies. Agents say the group processed over $150 million in gambling proceeds between 2000 and 2007.

Charged in the indictment are Baron Lombardo, Count Lombardo, Richard Cason-Selman, Henry Bankey, Tina Hill, Frank Lombardo and Kimberlie Lombardo. The group faces charges of racketeering, bank fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.

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