The latest craze in the online gambling affiliate sector has been thepromotion of so-called "gift cards" or virtual Visas. That craze may beshort lived as some of these gift card providers have been notifyingaffiliates that they will not permit their product to be advertised oninternet gambling-related websites. For affiliates, this serves as yetanother blow in […]
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Turano stated the week before, that the involvement Garcia may have had inthe operation was placing infrequent bets. They are currently waiting forthe next court date to be set. The individual charges carry maximumpenalties of five to ten years in prison and additional fines of up to$150,000. Garcia served as a state assemblyman in the […]
Dennis L. Irish is betting that the Worcester City Council will back hisproposal to let voters decide whether the city should play host to casinogambling. Mr. Irish, an at-large city councilor, held a press conference atCity Hall yesterday, accompanied by three colleagues – Gary Rosen, Philip P.Palmieri and Joffrey Smith. Councilor Frederick C. Rushton could […]
Four people were indicted by a Nueces County grand jury this week on chargesof illegally promoting gambling in connection with a March 3 eight-linerraid just outside the city limits. Margie Torres, 22, Jose David Menchaca,46, Anna Menchaca, 45, and Norma Lisa Ramos, 40, were indicted Wednesdayafter a raid at the 624 Game Room in Calallen. […]
The government of Antigua and Barbuda's Division of Gaming in the FinancialServices Regulatory Commission is slated to revamp its regulations in thecoming days. The Antigua is undergoing an extensive review and overhaul ofits regulations with the assistance of Mark Mendel, the government'sattorney in the World Trade Organisation gaming dispute which Antigua won,and other consultants. "That […]
Local officials made no offer to restrict betting on NBA teams in a pitchfor a franchise sent to commissioner David Stern on Thursday. The proposal,requested by Stern in February, emphasizes Nevada's gambling regulatoryrecord and argues the system "should provide sufficient cause for theassociation to permit a franchise to exist comfortably in Las Vegas withoutconcern of […]
The Gambling Commission will hope to take steps today towards securing theopen sharing of information relating to the betting habits of sports stars.The Commission will meet with those from the industry to discuss variousmatters relating to sports betting and hope to see those accounts owned bysport stars flagged if their betting breaches their rules and […]
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 […]
"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. […]
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 […]
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 […]