New Delhi, June 26 -- LOS ANGELES - The lifestyle funded by illegal sports wagers included butlers, private jets, and Rolls-Royces. Federal prison, Mathew Bowyer told KNBC, the NBC affiliate in Los Angeles, served what he described as "dog food." The contrast made him regret some choices. Not all of them.

Bowyer, 51, was released from a California federal prison after serving seven months of a 12-month sentence for running one of the largest illegal bookmaking operations in recent American history. In an exclusive interview broadcast by KNBC this week, he spoke publicly for the first time since his release, describing what prison cost him materially, what it may have cost him emotionally, and why he does not consider himself the only per...