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 […]
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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 […]
PARTYGAMING experienced a late flurry of buying on an apparent proceduralsetback in Congress over America’s anti-gambling legislation.Bill Frist, the Senate majority leader, has been seeking to attach theanti-gambling measure to one of two “must-pass” Bills before Congress shutsdown this weekend ahead of November’s mid-term elections. But withlegislators keen not to hold up the progress of […]
After a brief skirmish over new identification requirements for cross-bordertravel, it appeared House GOP leaders have agreed to let the $34.8 billionFY07 Homeland Security appropriations conference report come to the floor asearly as today, GOP aides said. House Speaker Hastert and Judiciary ChairmanSensenbrenner, key architects of the 2004 intelligence overhaul lawstipulating the requirements, had pressured […]
The jingle of slot machines from neighboring Pennsylvania could serve as awake-up call for West Virginia lawmakers to approve table gambling, DelegateGil White believes. White, R-Ohio, said without table gambling West Virginiacould lose up to $50 million in revenue the first year Pennsylvania comeson-line with its slot machines. Pennsylvania officials on Wednesday approvedlicenses for five […]
Italy has had an interesting relationship with online gaming. In February,the country attempted to ban all IP addresses of online gaming sites, andthen a few days later reportedly tried to set up an ‘exclusive’ relationshipwith an online poker room, allegedly for a slice of the pie. Now, Italy hastaken the step that the U.K., and […]
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, a Virginia Republican,raised a “strong objection” to attaching any unrelated legislation to apending defense bill, which has been viewed by supporters of the gamblingbill as a prime vehicle for it. “I have firmly opposed putting any(unrelated) bills in the conference report,” Warner wrote in a letter datedMonday to […]
British bookmaker William Hill said today it had stopped taking casino andpoker bets from US customers amid confusion over internet gambling lawsthere. Online sports betting contravenes the 1961 Wire Act in America, whichbans the placing of bets on sporting events via the telephone line in thestates. William Hill already has measures in place to prevent […]
Fiscal protectionism masked by political manoeuvring and adroit publicrelations the real agenda Veteran industry professional and soon to standdown Sportingbet CEO Nigel Payne spoke out against online gambling bans inan interview with The Times of London this week. Long an articulateproponent of government regulated and taxed online gambling, Payne explainedhow not so hidden agenda have […]
Senator Frist failed again to attach an Internet gambling bill to a defensebill today. However, Republicans are looking for other avenues to banonline gambling before Congress adjourns for the November 7 elections. Anaide told Reuters today, “Frist wants to get it done…We are still workingthings out. Everyone is still talking.” A senior Democratic aide was […]
A broad coalition of Christian clergy said Wednesday they will pushparishioners to oppose a proposal to expand gambling in Ohio by displayingyard signs, campaigning door-to-door and preaching against the measure fromtheir pulpits. The announcement at a Statehouse news conference marked amoment of rare cooperation on a political issue between Ohio’s mainstreamand conservative religious communities, which […]
Louisiana police have warned all online gambling companies to stopaccepting bets in the state or risk having their executives and directorsarrested if they visit the US, the Financial Times reported, citing aninterview with Captain Joe Lentini, head of the casino section ofLouisiana’s Police Gaming Enforcement division. The FT quotes Lentini, thepolice official responsible for the […]