"It was our way of entering into the organized-crime arena," said Mrs. Pirro of the gambling raids.

When the young man was picked up in a gambling raid in Harlem on Thursday night, the police said yesterday, they asked him why he was on crutches.

He never came back to his apartment after the gambling raid, so I called the jail.

At The Chez Paree, you "could listen to Sophie Tucker, have the best prime rib in town and enjoy a gambling raid or two."

Francis Grevemberg of Lafayette was known for his high-profile gambling raids as State Police Superintendent.

"I felt that this was not something simply to be auctioned off, like things taken in a gambling raid," Mr. Neill said last week.

The state spent more than $3 million to keep police officers at the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation for four months after a gambling raid last summer, officials said.

Also indicted was Patrick Fanning, who was Mr. Aucoin's lawyer after his arrest in the gambling raid.

Rose said he was not concerned that a gambling raid involving Cambra had turned up a $27,000 check with Rose's signature.

In 1993, Marcinkowski abrubtly left the office, refusing to cooperate with the criminal probe of another assistant prosecutor who was arrested in a gambling raid.