Penn National arrests

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Originally Posted by 10 pnt move up

hmm, the Feds, an interesting dynamic since its not just a suspension from the local racing board that they can appeal and then just run in anothers name, this may actually scare a few of the cheaters out there if we are talking about jail time.

I would like to hear a lawyers take on arresting Rogers and Webb. Webb was caught injecting something (not sure what) in a horse he had running and the horse was scratched and he got 30 or 60 days from PA racing commission which he served. Rogers was caught by same investigators injecting additional 2 cc of lasix to horse in that day. I believe she is appealing. My question is can a violation of state rules be minor enough to only get relatively light license suspension be serious enough to qualify as Fraud in a Federal court? Especially in the Rogers case where the same med was used by every other horse in the race admittedly at a slightly lower level. I'd think you'd have a tough time convincing a judge that 2 cc of lasix would have enough of an influence being that you'd easily get a 100 credible witness to testify that it would likely have little effect on the results.