A federal magistrate judge declined to release one of the ringleaders of what authorities allege is a multi-state gambling and extortion ring run partly out of his family’s two Northwest Indiana restaurants.
James “Jimmy the Greek” Gerodemos, 62, was one of several defendants in the case who appeared for detention hearings Monday at the U.S. District Courthouse in Hammond.
In a motion for detention filed Monday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Philip Benson wrote how Gerodemos had paid former Lake County Sheriff John Buncich $10,000 per month to…