{"id":153789,"date":"2021-02-18T06:08:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T10:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=153789"},"modified":"2021-02-18T08:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T12:56:37","slug":"nine-deputies-are-in-the-sports-betting-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/02\/18\/nine-deputies-are-in-the-sports-betting-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine deputies are in the sports betting business"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"546\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Congreso-Nacional-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-153812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Congreso-Nacional-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Congreso-Nacional-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sociologists say sports betting is a cancer that has spread throughout the nation since the days of the Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez presidencies. Diario Libre reports that at least nine deputies in Congress are prosperous businessmen with major investments in sports betting businesses. The newspaper points out how the legislators are ironically on the culture, sports and youth committees in Congress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The legislators with investments in sports betting include:<br>Eduardo Espiritusanto Castillo, deputy for La Romana for Fuerza del Pueblo (FP). Bancas Eduard.<br>Domingo Eusebio de Le\u00f3n Mascaro, Santo Domingo-PLD. La Soluci\u00f3n.<br>Juan Carlos Echavarria Milan\u00e9 of the PLD. Bancas Joselito.<br>Carlos Jos\u00e9 Gil Rodriguez of the PLD. La Din\u00e1mica.<br>Manuel Miguel Flori\u00e1n Terrero (Barahona-PRM). Los Mellizos.<br>Melvin Alexis Lara Melo (PRM). Banca Alex Lara<br>Orlando Antonio Martinez Pe\u00f1a (Monse\u00f1or Nouel-PRM). Bancas OM, Lotedom.<br>Alexander Javier Cuevas (Santo Domingo-PRM). Loter\u00eda Alex Sport.<br>Frank Junior Guerrero (San Cristobal PRM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newspaper also reports that senator Antonio de Jesus Cruz Torres (Santiago Rodr\u00edguez \u2013 PLD) is owner of the Bancas de Loter\u00eda Nacional Antonio Cruz and Bancas Antonio Cruz that has 559 locations nationwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/politica\/hay-nueve-diputados-duenos-de-bancas-de-apuestas-y-muy-millonarios-HE24463455\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 February 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sociologists say sports betting is a cancer that has spread throughout the nation since the days of the Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez presidencies. Diario Libre reports that at least nine deputies in Congress are prosperous businessmen with major investments in sports betting businesses. The newspaper points out how the legislators are ironically on the culture, sports and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/02\/18\/nine-deputies-are-in-the-sports-betting-business\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153789"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153813,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153789\/revisions\/153813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}