Elizabeth Warren Endorses Tierney: Wife Served Time in Offshore Gambling Case

Massachusetts Senior Senator Elizabeth Warren has endorsed eight-time Democratic incumbent Congressman John Tierney, who is expected to fight a tough primary this upcoming November.

Gambling911.com readers became familiar with Tierney after his wife Patrice was charged for her role in the operation of her brother Robert Eremian’s offshore gambling enterprise.  She served as an accountant for the long established Antigua-based gambling business, Sports Off Shore.

Another brother, Daniel, was also charged with helping to run the business.  At the time of Tierney’s 2012 election campaign, Daniel alleged that the Congressman knew everything and essentially “threw Patrice under the bus”.

The war of words then grew ugly from there.

“It shocks and saddens me to learn that my brother would say something so utterly false about me and my husband in a moment of desperation and anger,” Patrice Tierney said in a statement. She said her husband “has been nothing but supportive.”

“It is demeaning for my brother to infer that I am not intelligent enough, even with the counsel of a well-respected lawyer, to make my own decisions,” she said.

Conservatives took full advantage of the controversy but Tierney was still reelected in November 2010 just weeks after the gambling charges came to light.
 

- Gilbert Horowitz, Gambling911.com