Nowhere in the language of a bill passed late Friday night to curb internetgambling is there any mention of gamblers being prosecuted for placing betsor playing poker online. In fact, the new bill does not apply to gamblersat all other than to make it a little more difficult to fund online bettingand poker accounts. Online […]
It took a backdoor move by the Senate Majority leader, but the bill designedto curb online gambling in the United States has passed. Sen. Bill Fristhelped get the Internet gambling ban attached to a defense bill designed toboost security at nation’s ports. The bill passed Saturday. The bill callsfor banks to work with the federal […]
Ligue 1 club Toulouse protested against a French ban on advertising forgambling by wearing the slogan “.com, censored” on their shirts during agame at Olympique Marseille on Sunday. It replaced the name of Toulouse’sshirt sponsors, online casino and poker firm 888.com. The FrenchProfessional Football League (LFP) on Friday banned its clubs fromadvertising any form of […]
AMERICA’s $6 billion (£3.2 billion) internet gambling industry is facingmeltdown after the US Senate pushed through a Bill at the weekend outlawingthe processing of bets by banks and credit companies. The surprise move,which is expected to spark a massive share sell-off, will promptLondon-listed 888 Holdings to announce this morning that it is halting itsentire US-facing […]
“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 […]
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 […]
LOUISIANA governor Kathleen Blanco has voiced support for the state’scrackdown on online gambling and renewed an extradition request for PeterDicks, former chairman of Sportingbet. The governor’s intervention came asMr Dicks prepared to attend a court hearing in New York yesterday to learnwhether he will be sent to Louisiana to face illegal gambling charges.Lawyers for Mr […]
Trainer Greg Martin was sentenced to two years probation and six months homeconfinement on Thursday for his involvement in an alleged illegal gamblingring that supposedly brokered more than $200-million in bets over a two-yearperiod. Martin was fined $2,000 and a $100 special assessment by JudgeMiriam Goldman Cedarbaum in United States District Court for the SouthernDistrict […]