Sal Culosi is dead because he bet on a football game – but it wasn’t a bookie or a loan shark who killed him. His local government killed him, ostensibly to protect him from his gambling habit.
Several months earlier at a local bar, Fairfax County, Virginia, detective David Baucum overheard the thirty-eight-year-old optometrist and some friends wagering on a college football game. ‘To Sal, betting a few bills on the Redskins was a stress reliever, done among friends,
