The annoying proliferation of legal sports gambling, which seems to be the only thing advertised on television these days, hasn’t stopped the seedy and illegal underbelly of the practice from continuing to occur.

That fact became clearly obvious in a Calgary courtroom this week when a city woman pleaded guilty to criminal harassment of a man whose only mistake was to vouch for a friend who wanted to participate in illegal sports betting.

The victim, who can’t be named under a court order protecting his identity, had referred a friend, Kyung Shin, to Chantelle But to assist Shin in placing some illegal bets on sporting events.

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It turned out, much to the later chagrin of the victim, that after accumulating losses of $110,000 to But’s contacts in the gambling underworld, Shin flew the coop.

As a result, But was told by her contacts she would have to find a way of covering the debt and she proceeded to try to turn the screws on the........

© Calgary Herald