DeLuca testified that he panicked and told an associate of Gotti whom he knew from the neighborhood that then-Mets first baseman Keith Hernandez had placed the bets, thinking it would buy him time.
DeLuca testified that Hernandez did not place the bets. A spokesman for SportsNet New York, where Hernandez works as a Mets broadcaster, did not immediately return a call for comment.
He said he called Hernandez because he had a good rapport with him and asked to borrow money and Hernandez wrote him a check for $7,000. He said he took the money to Atlantic City and lost it all.
DeLuca said he confessed to the Gambino associate that the bets were his and that he didn’t have the money and was punched several times before the associate and Gotti met with his parents to arrange a payment plan. He said he did not work for the Mets after 1984.
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