“This last minute deal reeks of political gamesmanship” says PPA, but thehorseracing business is delighted with its carve out. Most posters deploredwhat was seen as the “stealth” introduction of the measure by RepublicanSenator Bill Frist, who pulled political strings to attach a compromiseversion of a stalled anti-online gambling proposal to an essential portsecurity act, which […]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
A newspaper poll finds Ohio voters support raising the minimum wage and curbing smoking in public places but not expanding gambling in the state. The Plain Dealer poll shows 73% of respondents support raising the state’s minimum wage to $6.85. Issue 2 on the November ballot is a constitutional amendment to raise the wage from […]
The internet gaming industry breathed a sigh of relief yesterday when PeterDicks, the former chairman of Sportingbet, was released from US custody andallowed to return to Britain. Mr Dicks became the second UK internet gamingexecutive to be arrested when he was held in New York three weeks ago undera warrant issued by the state of […]
Congressional Republicans attached a measure cracking down on Internetgambling to a bill aimed at enhancing port security that passed Saturday.Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.,pushed for the gambling provision to be added to the larger bill. Onlinegambling is generally illegal in most circumstances, but it is somethingthat is difficult to […]
The Port Security Bill, which will increase security along all United Statesports, overwhelmingly passed both the House and Senate in the midnite hoursof Friday night early Saturday morning. Attached to the quality securitybill is a a completely unrelated measure that directly affects internetgambling. So what exactly does this bill do to the state of internetgambling? […]
House and Senate negotiators reached agreement last night on legislation totighten maritime and port security regulations and, in a last-minute move,added an unrelated measure that seeks to ban Internet gambling. At the sametime, House negotiators prevailed in their fight to strip out $4.5 billionin rail and mass-transit security funds included in the Senate provision.The port […]
Most forms of internet gambling would be banned under a bill that receivedfinal US congressional approval on Saturday. The House of Representativesand Senate approved the measure and sent it to President George W Bush tosign into law. The bill, a compromise between earlier versions passed by thetwo chambers, would make it illegal for banks and […]
Prison officials in Hong Kong said Saturday that they had broken up a majorfootball gambling syndicate inside one of the city’s maximum-security jails.Eight thousand packets of cigarettes believed to have been used to stakebets on English Premier League and European Champions League matches wereseized in the operation. Nearly 100 hand-made soccer betting slips were alsoseized […]