Here in THE U.S., it’s OK to bet on horses, play Lotto, gamble at Indiancasinos, wager in Atlantic City. And in Las Vegas, it’s virtually apatriotic duty to gamble. In all, you can legally bet in 46 of 50 states,but not over the Internet. Online gambling is illegal. Although the onlineside of the business, while […]
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Two days after the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling RegionalConference occurred here, I saw Seneca Nation President Barry Snyder, MayorByron Brown and Seneca Gaming Corp. officials on public access TV replayingthe Fulton Street sale approval announcement and predicting “development,waterfront connectedness, millions of tourists” and other such misleadingsound bites. This offensive and private press staging did […]
Here in THE U.S., it’s OK to bet on horses, play Lotto, gamble at Indiancasinos, wager in Atlantic City. And in Las Vegas, it’s virtually apatriotic duty to gamble. In all, you can legally bet in 46 of 50 states,but not over the Internet. Online gambling is illegal. Although the onlineside of the business, while […]
Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a newInternet-gambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them onto overseas payment services out of the law’s reach. “It has put a terriblescare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law atWhittier Law School. “But it won’t by any means […]
Here in THE U.S., it’s OK to bet on horses, play Lotto, gamble at Indiancasinos, wager in Atlantic City. And in Las Vegas, it’s virtually apatriotic duty to gamble. In all, you can legally bet in 46 of 50 states,but not over the Internet. Online gambling is illegal. Although the onlineside of the business, while […]
Britain’s culture secretary on Friday compared the United States crackdownon online gambling to the failed alcohol ban of the Prohibition as sheprepared to host an international summit on Internet gambling next week.Tessa Jowell warned that the U.S. ban on Internet gambling would makeunregulated offshore sites the “modern equivalent of speakeasies,” illegalbars that opened in 1920s […]
Two days after the National Coalition Against Legalized Gambling RegionalConference occurred here, I saw Seneca Nation President Barry Snyder, MayorByron Brown and Seneca Gaming Corp. officials on public access TV replayingthe Fulton Street sale approval announcement and predicting “development,waterfront connectedness, millions of tourists” and other such misleadingsound bites. This offensive and private press staging did […]
An alleged maintainer of an illegal gambling outfit codenamed “Ching”, whois a relative of top government officials in Negros Occidental, wassentenced yesterday to a maximum six-year imprisonment term after he pleadedguilty for violating Republic Act 9287, also known as the amendedanti-illegal gambling law. Meted such penalty by Kabankalan Regional TrialCourt Judge Henry Arles after having […]
THE biggest bets in Las Vegas take place behind closed doors. In the privatehigh-rollers’ suites, punters bet $1m a hand on blackjack while sipping$5,000-a- bottle cognac. This month the biggest bet in town is being madeaway from the slot machines and roulette wheels. It is being placed on theboardroom table, not the card table; and […]
A growing initiative to unseat Kyl from his comfortable Senate appointment.Kyl reportedly has ambitions to become the Republican majority leader in theSenate following Senator Bill Frist’s departure Both Republicans played amajor role in ramming the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act throughCongress in the closing minutes of the pre-election session, angeringmillions of Americans who regard online […]
Unregulated internet gambling is simply adding to the growing problem ofaddiction, delegates attending the Canadian Association of SuicidePrevention conference in Toronto were told this week. An estimated 200compulsive gamblers commit suicide in Canada every year, said Terry Flynn, adirector of spiritual care at the Bellwood Health Services facility inToronto. The growth of gambling on the […]
The British government plans next week to seek international support forlegalized, regulated online gambling, emphasizing a trans-Atlanticdifference on the issue after the Bush administration’s recent move tooutlaw transactions with Internet gambling services. During a conferencescheduled for Tuesday at the Royal Ascot racecourse, the British governmentplans to seek adoption of a broad code of principles on […]
The voices talking so loudly against the Unlawful Internet GamblingEnforcement Act (UIGEA) on forums and blogs across are the internet will beleaving their keyboards on November 3-4 and will be headed to WashingtonD.C. to protest the latest US prohibition. The purpose of the demonstrationwill be to gain press coverage from major news organizations such as […]
Former Commonwealth Bank employee Erick Tjandra, 32, was jailed for aminimum three years on 37 counts of defrauding the bank. Over a 15-monthperiod Tjandra stole $10.4 million from the bank, $8 million of which he“poured down the throat of the casino”, District Court Judge ChristopherArmitage said today.The casino had allowed the bank clerk to play […]