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Judge Will Decide If FBI Acted Properly In Gambling Case

It's now up to a federal judge to decide whether the FBI improperly entered suites at a Las Vegas Strip casino in an illegal gambling investigation involving a Malaysian businessman and his son.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Peggy Leen said Thursday she'll make a ruling soon.

Leen spent three days hearing how undercover state and federal agents carried out a scheme to disconnect Internet service to several exclusive Caesars Palace villas then posed as repairmen to get inside.

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Testimony showed the agents had no warrant but used the ruse to collect evidence to obtain one.

They also didn't have the permission of Caesars Palace, although a casino technical contractor cooperated.

Defense attorneys say the ruse constituted an illegal, warrantless search of private property. They want the federal criminal case thrown out.
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