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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Utah consumer protection officials have cited four companies for sendinge-mail solicitations to minors for Web sites promoting gambling, alcohol andpornography. It was the second time this year state investigators issuedcitations under the state’s controversial Child Protection Registry law,which requires adult-oriented Web sites and e-mailers to screen outaddresses on the list from their distribution databases. Named […]
This week, Youth Eastside Services launched the first state-funded programto help teens battle gambling addiction. The program is funded by a new taxapproved last year by the Legislature to pay for prevention and treatment ofproblem gamblers. The tax is paid by the Washington Lottery, WashingtonHorseracing Commission and groups with recreational gaming licenses. So far,much of […]
A senior Finance Ministry official told gambling operators to prepare forhard times, while scantily clad girls danced outside the conference hall atMoscow’s annual international gaming expo Thursday. Dancers dressed ascowgirls moved to the din of slot machines at Crocus Expo, where hundreds ofcasino bosses, slots operators and manufacturers of gambling equipmentgathered in the hope of […]
Catholic schools in Calgary have agreed to stop fundraising through casinosand bingos, but it’s “business as usual” until they figure out how to makeup the $2-million shortfall, says the chairwoman of the school district’strustees. The issue arose when Calgary Bishop Fred Henry threatened to stripthe schools of their Catholic designation if they continued to raise […]
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 […]