Illegal bookmaker Bao Ye released from prison early, Congress concurrently introduces first gambling addiction funding bill in 15 years.

Just as Shohei Ohtani's former translator, Matt Bower, was released early from prison the same week, the U.S. Congress drafted the first bipartisan bill in over 15 years aimed at funding gambling addiction. Bower, convicted of illegal gambling, money laundering, and tax evasion, was sentenced to 12

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