“Are you planning on playing there? My advice is, don’t,” said a source of illicit Ozone Park, Queens, gambling dens. NYC Buildings Commissioner Eric Ulrich resigned in the midst of a probe t…
Reached for comment about Aldo’s role in all of this, the restaurant’s owner Anthony Livreri told The Post, “That is totally out of line, sir.”
La Nazionale Soccer Club in Queens, which was recently busted as an alleged front for a gambling operation, and other spots reportedly pulled in as much as $2,000 in profits a day., then a GOP candidate for state Senate. While on the City Council from 2009 to 2021, Ulrich helped move $44,000 in taxpayer funds to a Queens “crisis pregnancy center,” Bridge to Life — an organization for which Conigliaro sits on the board, per his website — according to the Daily News.
As for the money spent at Aldo’s, Ulrich has attributed it to a fundraising event and “campaign food.” Stakes, said the source, “are nothing compared to what you find in Manhattan, though you can still lose $5,000 or more per night. And winning in these games is not easy. The guys running the game will take 5- to 10-percent out of each pot.”
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