Paper Wants ‘Insane’ Indicted ‘Sports Tout to the Stars’ Secret Defense Unsealed

Indicted sports betting tout, Adam Meyer, reportedly has a secret he does not want revealed and the Court will maintain this secrecy, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Meyer is alleged to have extorted $25 million from a Fond du Lac liquor distributor as part of a convoluted scheme in which he claimed he owed a debt to a ruthless bookie named Kent Wong and that Wong mistook the Wisconsin man for Meyer’s partner.  Wong it turns out was actually Meyer himself.

The Journal Sentinel reports that the sealed documents related to Meyers defense pertain to his  justification for possibly using an insanity and a "public authority" defense.

From the Journal-Sentinel:

When the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel responded to the secret filing by asking U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman to make the records public, Meyer's lawyers further explained to Adelman why the records should be kept under wraps.

Much of that argument, however, also was filed under seal.

"Mr. Meyer has doubled down on secrecy by submitting the secret response," Steven Mandell, the Journal Sentinel's attorney, wrote last week in a filing asking for Meyer's arguments to be unsealed.

"This is crazy ... it violates every notion of due process," Mandell, a Chicago attorney specializing in media law, added in an interview. "For Meyer to think he could have his own little private argument to the court ... I've never seen anything like it."

Rodney Cubbie, a Milwaukee criminal defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor who is not involved in the case, notes: "It's like trying to box with somebody in the dark — how do you do that?"

The part of the court filing made public alludes to a potential to “endanger Mr. Meyer and his family” although no public details were made related to this claim.

The Journal-Sentinel is requesting to unseal the Court document.

- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com