The reason this is a bullshit case is now you devote a ton of resources prepping for this case when they could still be investigating and suppressing higher priority crimes.

Prepping for a 41 person RICO case is a shitload of work. All this work for a gambling pinch that slowed down gambling activiies for maybe 6-12 hours? Sit on them until you catch them doing some real crimes , this is just pointless.

My guess is they got impatient and grabbed some low hanging fruit for the media