Peter Dicks has resigned his job as chairman of Sportingbet PLC, but heregained his freedom as New York authorities lifted the threat ofextradition to Louisiana hanging over his head and returned his passport.Mr.Dicks, 64, was detained last week after arriving at New York’s JFK Airportfrom London, where customs officers were alerted to an outstanding warrantfor […]
Monthly Archives: September 2006
GAMBLING grandmother Lorraine Wilson will find herself behind bars everyweekend over the next few months.The manager of a Co-op store who stole£56,000 in takings to fund her gambling addiction has been given a newsentencing option which is being pioneered in Herts.Judge Stephen Warner atSt Albans Crown Court handed her a 36-week jail sentence but said […]
Asia Pulse reports this week that the South Korean authorities intend tounilaterally block Internet access of Koreans to some 128 “online gamblingrelated” sites this year.”As of the end of August, we have blocked localpeoples’ access to such illegal gambling sites which operate their serversoverseas and target Korean customers,” Information and CommunicationMinister Rho Jun-hyong told a […]
State-owned monopoly Holland Casino is to be given a licence to offer gamesof chance on the Internet. The Lower House has supported a proposal byJustice Minister Piet Hein Donner for a two-year trial. The Netherlands hasan estimated 300,000 people who sometimes try their luck with an illegalgame of chance on the Internet, according to Donner. […]
Louisiana State governor Kathleen Blanco is rejecting the idea of allowingeBingo games to be used by charitable organizations as a way of fundraisingbecause her administration believes that would be an expansion of gambling.Blanco administration spokespeople replied to our inquiry about the delay inapproving the Bingo games for charitable organizations, “We are beingcareful in our decision […]
According to eog.com On September 12, 2006, the Poker Players Alliance,along with the support of other leading Poker forums who oppose anylegislation that would prohibit online poker, have organized a ‘Phone March’on Capital Hill.The Phone March definitely made a dent in the legislation atleast five thousand calls were made, since most of the phone calls […]
Congressman Martin T. Meehan is pushing for federal legislation to fight theproblems surrounding compulsive gambling. The Lowell Democrat is on theright track. But more needs to be done.Meehan is the chief sponsor of theComprehensive Awareness of Problem Gambling Act of 2006. The bill would usefederal money to study and combat problem gambling.States across the countryhave […]
SENATE MAJORITY Leader Bill Frist is trying to use a bill authorising USmilitary operations, to prohibit people from using credit cards to settleInternet gambling debts. Frist, who might be having a crack at thepresidency in 2008, wants to make it illegal for punters who gamble onlineto use US credit cards to pay any gambling debts […]
The chairman of British online gambling company Sportingbet PLC, who wasarrested last week after New York customs officials discovered his name on aLouisiana warrant charging him with illegal online gambling, resigned onThursday, the company said. “Further to its recent announcements regardingMr. Peter Dicks, Sportingbet confirms that, with great reluctance … theBoard accepted the resignation of […]
The US Department of Justice has admitted that the 1961 Wire Act which ituses to prosecute executives of online gambling companies is “dated”. TheDepartment insists, though, that the law is sufficient for the prosecutionof gambling executives.Referring to the laws under which it prosecutes,including the controversial 1961 Act, Justice Department spokeswomanJacqueline Lesch told OUT-LAW: “They include […]
Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson is ready to gamble. Jackson on Wednesdayannounced he will support a November ballot proposal that would bring twoslot machine parlors to the core of his struggling city. Jackson said theprospect of 5,300 jobs and $75 million yearly in economic development moneyfor the city and county are worth risking his political capital. […]
By The Associated Press and N-B Staff Some Indiana residents want the stateto legalize video gambling in American Legion halls and other clubs – a movesupporters say would allow the state to regulate the machines and collect apiece of the pot.The Indiana Licensed Beverage Association has plannedpublic meetings around the state to convince lawmakers that […]
The government is continuing to shut down access to Korean-language gamblingWeb sites, whose operations are based in foreign countries.The Ministry of Information and Communication yesterday said it had blockedthis month alone up to 53 gambling sites, which had moved servers overseasto avoid the grip of the local laws. The measure is unprecedented becausethese gambling sites […]
As reported by the San Diego Union-Tribune: “The Sycuan Indian band mightsomeday build a second large casino in East County. “Under a provision thatthe tribe negotiated into its amended, 5,000-slot compact with Gov. ArnoldSchwarzenegger, Sycuan could open a second casino on 1,600 acres of adjacentland – including the golf course – that the tribe has […]