A U.S. federal judge ruled Wednesday that BetOnSports gambling websitefounder Gary Stephen Kaplan should be extradited to the mainland UnitedStates to face a 22-count criminal indictment. Magistrate Marcos Lopez alsosaid Kaplan, who was arrested March 28 in the Dominican Republic and broughtto Puerto Rico, poses a flight risk and should not be freed on bond […]
Monthly Archives: April 2007
A House committee approved a bill Wednesday that would legalize high stakeselectronic bingo games at greyhound dog tracks in Birmingham and Mobile. Thebill, by Rep. Marcel Black, D-Tuscumbia, provides for 20 percent of grossrevenue from the bingo games to be taxed with tax revenue helping to fundAlabama's Medicaid program. The bill would also outlaw other […]
"We have invited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Lifeand raise any concerns they would like, and we know of at least one instancethat federal agents did look around in a virtual casino," Linden Lab's vicepresident Ginsu Yoon told the Reuters news agency. Linden Lab operates thephenomenally successful online service. […]
Rochester Institute of Technology is in the process of toughening its policyon gambling. Currently, most forms of gambling are prohibited. The revisedpolicy would simplify the language and leave fewer exceptions. "I think it'ssomething where they're not trusting the student body as much as theyshould," said junior Amy Christian. RIT's various student and facultygovernance boards will […]
Even as 85-year-old Macau gambling mogul Stanley Ho is in hospitalundergoing treatment for constipation and an injured rectum, the word is outthat Macau has overtaken Las Vegas as the world's biggest casino draw.Macau's 22 casinos raked in over US$7 billion last year while Las Vegas' 40casinos lagged behind at US$6.6 billion. A few hours away, […]
According to Polish newspaper, The Warsaw Voice, the country is planning tointroduce regulations to license and tax online gambling. The regulationsare similar to those in Italy, signalling that European markets arecontinuing to open up doors for online gambling. Poland's decision followsthe favourable ruling for online gambling and online poker in the Placanicacase by the European […]
The Better Bingo Network has been thrilled by the publication of the annualGamCare report, delivered yesterday, after it revealed that online bingo hassome of the lowest levels of problem gambling in the online gamblingindustry. From a sample of 1,229 of GamCare's clients, a mere 0.6% said thatonline bingo was one of their most frequently used […]
The US military terrorized the City of San Francisco with their illegal lowflights over a heavily populated city, wasting tax dollars and oil, makingterrible noise, all to glorify war and the baseball gambling racket. At 1p.m. on April 3, 2007, the US military terrorized the City of San Franciscowith their illegal low flights over a […]
All three sectors play a major part in driving the sponsorship industry butare currently grabbing the headlines for the wrong reasons. Scrutiny aroundalcohol, gambling and fast food brand responsibility has never been moreintense and shows no sign of relenting. So where is the sponsorship industryheading? The European Sponsorship Association (ESA) is set to challenge anddebate […]
Police in Hong Kong Wednesday arrested 22 people on charges of illegalgambling and seized chips and cash totalling around 5,000 US dollars. The 22were arrested early Wednesday in a raid on an apartment in an industrialunit in the city's Kwai Chung area which was allegedly being used forillegal baccarat games.The raid was conducted by anti-triad […]
Sedgwick County residents will get the chance to vote on whether they want acasino in a special election Aug. 7. Voters will be asked if they approve ofhaving a destination casino in Sedgwick County and allowing slots at WichitaGreyhound Park. Sedgwick County commissioners agreed Tuesday that the bestday to hold a special election would be […]
There is a virus abroad in our town, a contagious virus that is spreadingand infecting more and more of our children, youth and adults. This virushas no elaborate Latin name, just a common English one: "gambling." More andmore arcades and "skill game parlors" are spring up. Christian churches andlong-established community organizations dedicated to the nurture […]
The state Legislature has made it possible to expand casino gambling inKansas. While gambling proponents hit the jackpot, the negativerepercussions from gambling will outweigh the economic benefits over thelong term. On Thursday, the Senate voted 21-19 to allow construction of fourstate-owned, privately managed casinos and the installation of 2,200 slotmachines at three dog and horse […]
The wife of hockey great Wayne Gretzky says the intense media coverage ofher alleged involvement in an American gambling ring was an attempt to"paint something that just wasn't true." In a story published in the Mayissue of Chatelaine magazine — the first in-depth interview with her sincethe betting scandal made headlines in February 2006 — […]