Police on Friday jailed the co-chief executives of Austrian online companyBWIN for allegedly violating French gaming laws, police and judicialofficials said. Manfred Bodner and Norbert Teufelberger were arrested at thetraining center of AS Monaco, a first division soccer club where they wereto hold a news conference, a police official said. BWIN has links to severalfirst […]
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Peter Dicks has resigned his job as chairman of Sportingbet PLC, but heregained his freedom as New York authorities lifted the threat ofextradition to Louisiana hanging over his head and returned his passport.Mr.Dicks, 64, was detained last week after arriving at New York’s JFK Airportfrom London, where customs officers were alerted to an outstanding warrantfor […]
Senator Bill Frist is fighting for his supporters in the conservative FamilyResearch Council who want to ban internet gambling while more than 5,000phone calls poured into different US senator offices over the past week inopposition to the proposed ban. Frist and his Christain conservative backersappear to be on the winning hand of this battle as […]
Backers of a proposal that would permit slot machines in Ohio might ante upmillions of dollars for the city of Cincinnati to coax that city’s leadersto look favorably on the plan. Charles Ruma, who owns Beulah Park racetrackand who is the chairman of the Ohio Learn and Earn Committee, said yesterdaythat a charitable foundation could […]
Louisiana has pinned high hopes on its casinos to play a major role in thestate’s economic recovery in the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.Yet this stream of revenue could well run dry if maverick Texangubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman has his way. Kinky has pledged that,if elected Governor on November 7, one of his first […]
Although the Internet gambling bill is gaining momentum, politicians whovote in favor of banning online gambling may be in serious jeopardy oflosing their jobs come election time.A lobbyist told EOG that the Internetgambling bill is likely to pass.He states, “Disguised in a huge defensebill, do you want to try and be the one guy to […]
Leading shares closed flat, giving up earlier gains in the last few minutesof trade as investors took profits at the end of a volatile session and withanother chapter in the gambling sector saga overshadowing gains in mortgagebanking stocks, dealers said. The FTSE 100 index closed just 0.2 pointslower at 5,877.0 in a volatile session that […]
GAMBLING grandmother Lorraine Wilson will find herself behind bars everyweekend over the next few months.The manager of a Co-op store who stole£56,000 in takings to fund her gambling addiction has been given a newsentencing option which is being pioneered in Herts.Judge Stephen Warner atSt Albans Crown Court handed her a 36-week jail sentence but said […]
Asia Pulse reports this week that the South Korean authorities intend tounilaterally block Internet access of Koreans to some 128 “online gamblingrelated” sites this year.”As of the end of August, we have blocked localpeoples’ access to such illegal gambling sites which operate their serversoverseas and target Korean customers,” Information and CommunicationMinister Rho Jun-hyong told a […]
State-owned monopoly Holland Casino is to be given a licence to offer gamesof chance on the Internet. The Lower House has supported a proposal byJustice Minister Piet Hein Donner for a two-year trial. The Netherlands hasan estimated 300,000 people who sometimes try their luck with an illegalgame of chance on the Internet, according to Donner. […]
Louisiana State governor Kathleen Blanco is rejecting the idea of allowingeBingo games to be used by charitable organizations as a way of fundraisingbecause her administration believes that would be an expansion of gambling.Blanco administration spokespeople replied to our inquiry about the delay inapproving the Bingo games for charitable organizations, “We are beingcareful in our decision […]
According to eog.com On September 12, 2006, the Poker Players Alliance,along with the support of other leading Poker forums who oppose anylegislation that would prohibit online poker, have organized a ‘Phone March’on Capital Hill.The Phone March definitely made a dent in the legislation atleast five thousand calls were made, since most of the phone calls […]
Congressman Martin T. Meehan is pushing for federal legislation to fight theproblems surrounding compulsive gambling. The Lowell Democrat is on theright track. But more needs to be done.Meehan is the chief sponsor of theComprehensive Awareness of Problem Gambling Act of 2006. The bill would usefederal money to study and combat problem gambling.States across the countryhave […]
SENATE MAJORITY Leader Bill Frist is trying to use a bill authorising USmilitary operations, to prohibit people from using credit cards to settleInternet gambling debts. Frist, who might be having a crack at thepresidency in 2008, wants to make it illegal for punters who gamble onlineto use US credit cards to pay any gambling debts […]