A SHAKE-UP of gambling laws could increase problem gambling, the governmentminister in charge of the issue has conceded. The Gambling Act, which waspassed last year, relaxes some restrictions on the industry. For the firsttime, Las Vegas-style `supercasinos’ will be allowed in Britain. A decisionon the site of the first is due in the next week. […]
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Private companies seeking to operate the Hoosier Lottery couldn’t rely onexpanded gambling to increase profits under a bill filed yesterday. Thatmight dampen enthusiasm among companies interested in Gov. Mitch Daniels’plan to lease the lottery to a private operator and use the proceeds tocreate scholarships and boost spending on higher education, one gamblingconsultant said. A ban […]
Casino gambling legislation is a means by which criminal elements in Guyanacan conceal their various activities including extra-judicial killings and anumber of other illegal activities. PNCR-IG Leader and Opposition LeaderRobert Corbin levelled this charge when he addressed persons gathered atParliament Buildings yesterday following a protest march co-sponsored by hisparty. He told persons there that casino […]
Though payment processor Neteller PLC is the latest and largest such companyto pull out of the lucrative but illegal U.S. online gambling market,industry observers said other e-wallet sites would come forward to take itsplace. The arrest of its founders Monday on U.S. soil on money launderingcharges and the company’s delicate position as a publicly traded […]
TWO FORMER NETELLER executives who were just passing through the UnitedStates on a flight transfer have been arrested by the FBI.Stephen Lawrence and John Lefebvre, who are British and have not broken anyUK law, were arrested in connection with what the FBI claims was launderingbillions of dollars of Internet gambling proceeds. According toCardplayer.com, NETELLER allows […]
Lord Faulkner of Worcester has asked Her Majesty’s Government: Whatdiscussions they have had with the Gambling Commission about requiringbetting organisations to conclude information-sharing agreements with sportsgoverning bodies as a licence condition for accepting bets on those sports.Lord Davies of Oldham: My Lords, discussions have taken place over a rangeof issues relating to sports and the […]
Back in the early 1960s, no states ran lotteries, only one — Nevada —allowed casinos and Indian tribes had yet to discover bingo or glitzy casinohalls. Today, 42 states operate lotteries, 37 have commercial, Indian orracetrack casinos and only two — Utah and Hawaii — don’t allow any form ofgambling. The gaming industry is a […]
Neteller was by far the most popular online gambling payment method, butthere are many excellent online payment methods now that Neteller hasdecided to no longer facilitates gambling transactions…The followingonline gambling payment methods will be accessible from the cashier functionin most online casinos, poker rooms and sports books. They are allalternatives to Neteller for US-based players. […]
After losing a pile of money at an Atlantic City casino in July 2004, afrustrated gambler drove directly to the Casino Control Commissionheadquarters and put his name on a list of people banned from the city’scasinos. It’s a decision he immediately regretted – even more so when helearned that in this case, what happens in […]
NETeller Plc announced the closure of its US online transfer business in thewake of growing restrictions in the country. The closure follows last week’sarrest of the two founders of the UK-based online money transfer company.NETeller founders Stephen Lawrence, 46, and John Lefebvre, 55, were arrestedlast week in the US and charged of handling billions of […]
Southwest Airlines, the largest U.S. domestic carrier, says it has decidedagainst luring passengers with in-flight gambling to revive revenue growth.Other innovations will be tried, the Dallas-based carrier said, but declinedto be specific, the Financial Times reported Thursday. Low-cost airlinesRyanair and EasyJet are pioneering efforts to introduce onboard gaming andmobile phone calls. Gary Kelly, Southwest’s chief […]
Eight men face more than 100 charges in Wise County for allegedly operatingillegal gambling houses along the town of Appalachia’s Main Street.While the buildings were vacant by day, prosecutors allege, they were a hiveof clandestine activity at night as card players and gamblers looking toplace bets on sporting events made their way to the back […]
Jeff Coy has been named to another two-year term on Pennsylvania’s GamingControl Board. Speaker of the House Dennis O’Brien, R-169, signed a letterreappointing Coy on Friday, and the letter was to be delivered Tuesday toCoy and gaming board chairman Thomas A. Decker. O’Brien spokesman BillPatton says the speaker made the appointment before receiving a letter […]
Federal prosecutors are keeping up the heat on the two founders of a companythat processes Internet gambling transactions. The two former heads of theNeteller P.L.C. company have been arrested and charged with launderingbillions of dollars in gambling proceeds. The charges against John DavidLefebvre and Stephen Eric Lawrence are contained in a pair of criminalcomplaints unsealed […]