# United States v. Febus, 218 F.3d 784 (7th Cir. 2000)

Canonical: https://mobfiles.org/items/courtlistener-us-v-febus-218-f3d-784/

In an East Chicago, Indiana bolita lottery appeal, the Seventh Circuit describes the government witness Ken Eto as 'associated with organized crime in Chicago where he ran the bolita's Illinois operation' until he became an FBI informant in 1983 after an attempt on his life.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, July 14, 2000. The case concerns a "bolita" lottery in East Chicago, Indiana, taking bets on the daily Illinois and Puerto Rican lottery numbers.

The court says the defendant Efrain Santos "first worked for a man named Ken Eto who ran a larger bolita in Indiana and Illinois in the late 1960's and early 1970's, until Santos took over the Indiana operation in the 1970's." Eto testified for the government. The court describes him as a witness who had "survived an assassination attempt in which he sustained gunshot wounds to his head," and says: "Eto was associated with organized crime in Chicago where he ran the bolita's Illinois operation until he became an informant for the FBI in 1983 after the assassination attempt." It held that defense counsel's decision not to cross-examine him about his wounds was a reasonable strategy.

The opinion does not name the Outfit in connection with Eto, does not say who shot him, and gives no date for the attempt beyond 1983. No other filed record concerns him, so he has no person page here.

## Sources

- CourtListener (Free Law Project), text of the opinion: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/769431/united-states-v-roberto-febus-aka-bobby-santos-efrain-santos-aka/