Omaha real estate agent avoids jail time for running bookie business, evading more than $250K in tax

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/omaha-real-estate-agent-avoids-jail-time-for-running-bookie/article_8bd8efa6-2e24-54ca-8db7-18c8a115e6bb.html

POSTED: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2015 1:00 AM
By Alissa Skelton / World-Herald staff writer

A federal judge hesitantly gave a lenient sentence to a widely known Omaha real estate agent who ran a sports bookie business and evaded more than $250,000 in income taxes.

Todd Bartusek, 44, was sentenced Friday to three years of probation, in part because he had paid back all the income taxes he had failed to claim. He could have faced up to five years in federal prison.

A teary-eyed Bartusek told U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon in court, “I am so very sorry for what I have done. I have no excuses, and I accept full responsibility for what I have done.”

Bartusek earned at least $735,000 while running a bookmaking business through a password-protected online portal between 2007 and 2010. His attorney, Joseph Gross Jr., described the business as “relatively small and low grade.”

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[redstatebluegirl]

1. If he were Black or Hispanic and lived in Detroit he would never get out of jail!