Clark Fredericks

And telling them, your son's a dead man if you don't pay what he owes us.

Your brother's a dead man if you don't pay what he owes us.

And...

I had to warn all of them.

I didn't know what to do, so I called Gamblers Anonymous.

I'm not a rat, I'm not a snitch, but these guys started with these phone calls, like, you're a dead man if you don't pay us.

I'm like, I don't know what to do.

So I called 1-800-GAMBLER, and I told the lady on the phone the amount I owed and who I owed it to, and she said, I'm gonna have somebody call you back.

She had the director for the whole state of New Jersey call me back.

And that guy took me to a meeting a day later where there's a bunch of ex mobsters and guys who bet with the mob.

It's a hardcore meeting.

And they drafted up my response that I had to be a man, that I had to set up a payment plan.

And that I wasn't going to go to the police and that I wasn't going to walk away from this.

And that's what I told them.

They're like, they're going to scream.

They're going to say, no way, you're a dead man.

But just stick to your guns.

And that's what I did.

And...

The last phone call I got from them was not any pressure for money.