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Article on BOS' Owner Gary Kaplan
Posted by: yorktown (Moderator)
Date: October 14, 2007 09:36AM

Very interesting article by the River Front Times on Gary Kaplan.

The article is enlightening to the life of Gary (most of us in the business work 6-7 days a week) and how BOS operated. Kristen Hinman worked on this article for several months according to Gambling 911.....Nevertheless, I do differ in opinion with the article on several fronts:

1) How can a firm be labeled as 'frugal' requiring pens to be brought in by their employees, while at the same time paying for travel and maid service for some employees?
My only reasoning: Having worked while being a college student, you take extra pens home from the office because you need them at school....So probably BOS constantly had a shortage of pens. The university was across the street and most of the personnel were college students.

2) I can not possibly believe that Kaplan was simply 'traveling' to Dominican Republic of all places on earth to avoid prosecution. For several months, the US Federal Government had his wife and his brother in custody. Call it ransom if you will, but my suspicion is he worked out a deal with the Feds to turn himself in. In return his wife and brother would go free. I've posted on this in the past. ( Read Here)

Good read, check it out: Here

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Re: Article on BOS' Owner Gary Kaplan
Posted by: JerryG (---.dsl.ltrkar.swbell.net)
Date: October 14, 2007 11:26PM

I agree on both of those points. BoS paid higher salary than most other places in Costa Rica, and although their offices weren't as nice as what CRIS has, they certainly didn't go cheap on the extras, such as their swimming pool. Not exactly what I would call frugal.

I also think there is more to the story than some surprise bust in the Dominican Republic. Kaplan had the cash to hide out anywhere, under any identity. A rat hole like that probably wouldn't be anyone's first choice, and even if it were, he was more than capable of paying the authorities.

I don't see Norman being hauled in anywhere. I notice a similarity there as well, in that they arrested his son-in-law. Tim never did anything but manage the advertising decisions, which is not illegal in any respect, and even then Norman usually gave the final approval. I imagine they were probably mostly interested in using him as bait as well.

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