It's difficult to equate criminal activity with what happens in the legal world of poker. Anyone who books 7 figure sports bets is involved in huge crimes that could easily get people killed. Whether or not they pay/get paid is an afterthought to the fact they do this at all.
OK. None of this makes "who cares **** bookies" a useful response to the OP.
Didn’t Paul Phua and some others get busted doing some illegal bookie setup around the super bowl few years ago in Vegas, pretty sure dwan was there too, I’m guessing Phua was 3rd party