Matt Bower, an illegal horse betting operator in the U.S., begins his sentence for involvement in the Yiping Yuan gambling debt case, receiving a one-year imprisonment.

Matt Bowyer, an illegal horse betting operator in the United States, reported to the Lompoc Federal Prison in California on Friday to begin his approximately one-year imprisonment. As one of the largest illegal horse betting operators in the U.S., Bowyer had accepted about $325 million in bets from

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