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The FBI did this all by themselves with insider tips that had NOTHING to do with Gural or Cote. If they assisted he FBI in any way, it was to give them names and addresses....
Yea, you had me going until you told us the FBI could need Gural to help with an address. Sorry, but *Crinkle-Toss*
Gural will probably lose this case in court...if that is where it ends up.The thing that strikes me as an absurdity however is the fact that the long-forgotten name of failed investigator Brice Cody has again been brought to the fore when in fact his ineptitude became glaringly apparent last year when the FBI had to step in and tie a neat bow around everything Cote failed to do. Brice was going around testing horses out of competition just because they were winning while all the real stuff was going on around him and he was oblivious. He picked on certain trainers and looked like a dope. People he didn't like were more likely to get tested or people who he was told to go after by sour grapes people who couldn't win a race sent him on a wild goose chase here and there. Cote rarely if ever nailed anyone because they weren't guilty. He didn't dare test Takter or Burke or Pelling, but maybe he did and that was hushed up. I mean, if we had no Burke or no Takter, we would have no horses for Gural and no 6-figure cake job for Cote. He was just happy to nab a few nobodies and make it look like he was accomplishing something. Just another cop on the beat chasing little kids from the fire hydrant. I recall that after the FBI slammed down on Surick and that gang, Gural issued a statement saying that he (himself) and Brice Cote had assisted the FBI in their indictments. Not true. The FBI did this all by themselves with insider tips that had NOTHING to do with Gural or Cote. If they assisted he FBI in any way, it was to give them names and addresses....litt le stupid stuff. Nothing they did led the FBI to anyone. It would be a sorry state of affairs if the FBI had to rely on Brice Cote and Jeff Gural for insider info. Why on earth would Gural keep Cote around. He is utterly useless and he's an embarrassment to the whole idea of integrity. Don Knotts was a better deputy.
I'm talking about asking him throw away questions and eliminating easy leg work. 1) I need to see the ship in logs for the year. 2) Does the person in this photograph look familiar and do you know them by name? 3) I need access to your security cam from such and such a date. Basic stuff like that. Basically, they didn't "NEED" Gural for anything. But if they want to spend a few days browsing through files in the licensing office, they don't have to knock it down with a battering ram when the guy who owns the joint will gladly give you the key. I heard they even went through winner circle pictures to identify people and to place them with certain people and horses at certain times. Trust me, when I 'hear" something, I'm not blowing smoke. A lot of "adjacent" people get nabbed because of winner circle photos. They call these people "crew members". Beginning in 2015, the FBI started bringing back retired agents to go around doing those time-consuming tasks. Mostly background checks. It was similar to old police (retired) coming back to as security people and desk jobs. This is common knowledge since the formation of the Patriot Act. The idea was to use seasoned agents to do initial investigative legwork that would free up agents who do the actual operations because experienced agents can sniff things out even during the drudgery and discovery process. A lot of horsemen are "transient" so to find someone, they ask someone who would know. BY doing this, they can easily connect dots from person A to person B without having to go afield. This is basic investigative stuff. You can dismiss it all you want, but this is how it goes. A vast investigation into a ring of horse dopers starts with a trickle of information which snowballs into a mountain of work and pending investigation. They don't just show up at a barn with a warrant and haul people off to federal holding cells. There is a method and that method is very thorough and meticulous from the very first page.
What we really need here is a statement or comment by "The Counselor"..go ahead sir,we're standing by..
Be careful Mr. Jeff..........I heard they already have your shoe size???
I HOPE ALLARD SUES GURAL AND ENDS UP OWNING THE MEADOWLANDS SOME DAY. LOOKS LIKE HE IS IN THE PROCESS