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 — […]
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FBI investigators have visited Second Life's Internet casinos at theinvitation of the virtual world's creator Linden Lab, but the U.S.government has not decided on the legality of virtual gambling. "We haveinvited the FBI several times to take a look around in Second Life and raiseany concerns they would like, and we know of at least […]
Antigua had objected to recent US laws outlawing internet gambling. Itclaimed that the laws, which even ban gambling-related payments that takeplace outside the US's borders, broke the General Agreement on Trade inServices, a free trade multilateral agreement which underpins the WTO. TheWTO had previously ruled in favour of Antigua and Barbuda, a nation of only80,000 […]
It's an open secret that fraternal organizations and veterans groups financemany of their activities, including works of charity, through small-timegambling. Punchboards and pool sheets have long been passed along the bar,with at least the tacit approval of law enforcement. These devices now arelegal as long as the clubs buy a license for small games of […]
In response to repeated complaints by online betting companies, the EuropeanCommission (EC) took action to put an end to the obstacles to sports bettingservices in Hungary, Denmark and Finland. The EC formally requested thesemember states to amend their laws following consideration of their repliesto letters of formal notice sent in April 2006, in which the […]
According to a lifestyle study conducted by the Maltese organisationAgenzija Sedqa in collaboration with the National Focal Point for Drugs andDrug Addiction and the national commission on the abuse of drugs, alcoholand other dependencies, online gambling usage is relatively low. Just under60 percent of respondents aged between 18 and 24 admitted to having playedthe lottery, […]
Kaplan was indicted in June by a federal grand jury in the Eastern Districtof Missouri, the US attorney's office said in a press release. Theindictment accuses Kaplan and 10 others of engaging in racketeering,conspiracy and fraud, arising from the operation of Costa Rica-basedinternet gambling businesses, including BetOnSports.com. Following Kaplan'sarrest in the Dominican Republic, the US […]
In a judgment published late on Friday the World Trade Organisation (WTO)ruled that the unilateral prohibition imposed by the US on offshore Internetgambling is illegal. However the decision is unlikely to have much effect inthe short term at least – as the Bush administration has simply ignored a2005 WTO finding that concluded the US was […]
Public interest in NCAA basketball largely centers on informal contestsamong family, friends, and colleagues to guess the winners by filling out achart for the 127 games. This "bracketology," as it's called, easily slipsinto making bets. For many people, it also leads to big financial losses ora spiral into gambling addiction. The NCAA knows that gambling […]
Four dozen people charged in connection with what authorities said is amultimillion-dollar illegal sports betting ring made their first appearancein state Superior Court Thursday morning. The two women and 46 men werehandcuffed and wearing jail-issued jumpsuits. Most were chained together insmall groups as they filed into Judge Paul F. Chaiet's courtroom. Theroundup of defendants began […]
Early Thursday, thanks to a bizarre series of procedural moves and missteps,arm twisting and 12 hours of filibustering, the long odds finally paid off.The bill passed 21-19 and is on its way to the governor, who said Thursdayshe will sign it. In a strange twist, it was actually attempts to kill thebill by anti-gambling lawmakers […]
Online gamblers with an interest in the Eastern European nation of Polandhad reason to celebrate this week with news that the government of Poland ispreparing to license and regulate online gambling. A recent European Courtof Justice ruling in favor of British bookmakers who had been banned fromoperating in Italy without a license is expected to […]
If it has seemed over the past few days that cricket and illegal betting areincurably connected, an alternative view comes from – of all places –Karachi, where the head of the city's AntiCorruption Establishment declaresthat three years ago he came within sight of stamping out undergroundgambling houses completely. Karachi is split into 19 "towns", the […]
Anti-gambling groups are asking companies to take it easy during MarchMadness. Some researchers say companies could make someone who is addictedto gambling relapse. Let's face it. Very few of us actually do really wellwith our NCAA college basketball brackets. David Letterman must have reallytaken a pounding this year. "My prediction, in the final it will […]