The shock news that Fairground Holdings is to terminate business as a resultof having to abandon US-facing online gambling activities arrived as theweek ended, a sad close to a brief but promising business future for theagglomerator. In a public announcement Fairground reports that it isvoluntarily winding up its affairs following the need to halt US-facingonline […]
Government proposals for gambling fees for premises and permits have beenslammed by trade officials as “outrageous”. The Department for Culture Mediaand Sport (DCMS) has published its long-awaited consultation on the fees,which detailed a number of gambling price hikes. Business In Sport andLeisure, an umbrella group which represents over 100 private sectorcompanies in the sport, hospitality […]
Gaming industry leaders say Internet gambling will thrive despite a recentlaw effectively barring online betting in the United States. In October,President Bush signed legislation making it illegal for U.S. banks andcredit card companies to process payments to gambling Websites But sometraditional U.S. casino operators view the rules as temporary and say ashift away from online […]
THE Bracks Government has buckled to pressure over the integrity of itsgambling licence reviews, rushing out a confused policy late yesterday toput a retired judge in charge of the process. Opposition Leader TedBaillieu, who called for a judicial inquiry into gaming issues on Wednesday,said the Government’s reaction was the “boldest admission” something“stinks”. Mr Bracks was […]
It was the high-tech key to a massive, illegal gambling kingdom a laptopcomputer that authorities say was owned by professional poker player JamesGiordano.Giordano, who rarely let the laptop out of his sight, unknowingly took agamble earlier this year by leaving it behind while attending a wedding in aNew York suburb, said police. In the three […]
Twenty-seven people, including a Pince Crest man and a former pro baseballscout, were charged in a billion-dollar-a-year gambling ring. New York CityPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly says the illegal gambling ring quote —“rivals casinos for the amount of betting.” The massive betting ring was runthrough a web site called Playwithal-dot-com, run by the poker player, JamesGiordano, […]
If this past election was a referendum on congressional budget earmarkingand good, old-fashioned pork-barreling, West Virginians did their part inendorsing those practices when they re-elected certain congressionalincumbents. Now that Democrats have regained control of both houses ofCongress, you can bet West Virginia is about to see the federal dollars flowonce again. Remember the dire predictions […]
WEB SECURITY FIRM ScanSafe has detected a 40 per cent increase in US-basedrequests for online gambling sites, even after legislation was passed byGeorgey Bush with the “Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.” The actmakes it illegal for US banks and brokers to transfer funds to and from webgambling sites. The firm delivered its findings in its […]
Twenty-seven people, including a Pince Crest man and a former pro baseballscout, were charged in a billion-dollar-a-year gambling ring. New York CityPolice Commissioner Ray Kelly says the illegal gambling ring quote —“rivals casinos for the amount of betting.” The massive betting ring was runthrough a web site called Playwithal-dot-com, run by the poker player, JamesGiordano, […]
With the opening of the Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs, Pennsylvania’sslot-machine era is officially underway. For better or for worse, thePoconos racino proudly announced “Phase One of casino project is now open.”It features two floors packed with nearly 1,100 slot machines, from thepopular Wheel of Fortune to Double Diamonds to the brand spanking new Dealor […]
Michael Jordan could become an investor in a slot-machine parlor inPhiladelphia, state gambling regulators were told Wednesday. ThePennsylvania Gaming Control Board concluded hearings on applications by fivegroups competing for licenses in what could be the nation’s largest citywith stand-alone casinos. Las Vegas-based Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. saidif it gets a license, Robert L. Johnson, founder of […]
Critics of the recently released study on problem gambling are beingneedlessly harsh in their dismissal of the research. The study by UPEIprofessor Jason Doiron is neither misleading nor irrelevant. Rather it isincomplete. Doiron looked at the prevalence of problem gambling in thespring of 2005 and compared it to the numbers from a similar study conductedin […]
Criminal charges have been brought against more than two dozen people andcorporations in four states in connection with a billion-dollar-a-yeargambling website, authorities said yesterday. Authorities declined to nameany of those charged. One of the corporations is an offshore Internetcompany with an American counterpart, said Kevin Ryan, a spokesman forQueens District Attorney Richard Brown. Ryan said […]
A massive online gambling operation was shut down Wednesday with theindictment of 27 individuals and three corporations on charges of unlawfullyoperating a highly sophisticated operation in Queens County and elsewhere inthe world that booked more than $3.3 billion in wages over a 28-month periodon a wide variety of sporting events ranging from horseracing, football,baseball, basketball […]