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ABQCOWBOY said:Hold the phone here. In the original article you posted, it said the ring had been running for 5 years. It did not pin point the time frame of the 500K. The article you just posted seems to be a re-hash of what has already been circulated with just a bit of difference in the time frames thrown in for flavor. In all of these articles, I have not seen anybody referenced as a source in any official capacity. Only vague statments and time frames. Sorry, nothing I've seen here passes for anything other then hear say.
Multiple reports and sources report Jones/Gretzky bet $500K in past month. She by all accounts bet a LOT.....
It's in all the articles. Heck, Wayne was wiretapped trying to figure out how to cover it up....... GM of Phoenix bet with Tochet, another coach today admitted that he knew Tochet was a gambler - in fact watched games with him.
Do you think at this point this is all fabricated? To make Jones/Gretzky look bad? I've read many of the court doc's - looks pretty damn serious to me.
Gretzky Says He Never Placed a Bet With Ring
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By DAVE CALDWELL
Published: February 10, 2006
A drawn and weary Wayne Gretzky, hockey's Great One and now the coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, said last night that he did not participate in a betting ring that New Jersey authorities said was financed by his friend and assistant, Rick Tocchet.
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Wayne Gretzky said he was "concerned" for his assistant Rick Tocchet and his wife, Janet Jones.
"First and foremost, I've done nothing wrong — nothing that has anything along the lines of betting," Gretzky said in a news conference after the Coyotes' 5-1 loss to the Dallas Stars in Glendale, Ariz. "That never happened. I didn't bet. It didn't happen. It's not going to happen, it hasn't happened, and it's not something I've done."
Gretzky said he planned to continue to coach the Coyotes, who have lost five of their past six games, and also planned to accompany the Canadian men's hockey team, of which he is the executive director, to the Olympics in Turin, Italy. He called the past three days, in which his name was connected to the betting ring, as "horrible." He did not take questions from reporters.
"I am too tired mentally and physically to talk any more about it," he said.
Earlier, Janet Jones, Gretzky's wife, issued a statement through the Coyotes in which she said her husband was not involved in the betting ring.
"At no time did I ever place a wager on my husband's behalf, period," Jones said in the statement. "Other than the occasional horse race, my husband does not bet on any sports."
Jones has not been charged in the investigation, but The Star-Ledger of Newark reported yesterday that law-enforcement officials told the newspaper that Gretzky had been recorded on a wiretap talking to Tocchet about how Jones could avoid implication. The article did not specify when Gretzky was recorded.
The newspaper reported that Jones bet $500,000 in recent weeks, including $75,000 on Super Bowl XL. Elliot Mintz, a spokesman for Jones, said Jones might be called as a witness before a grand jury in the New Jersey gambling ring