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Gambling News NETELLER Distribution Plan to be Implemented To USARead Full ArticleNeteller reached a settlement with US Attorney’s Office, as posted in our last article: 20/07: NETELLER reaches a settlement with US Attorney’s Office (Read more about the Neteller settlement here.) Neteller announced on June 4th, that the Company agreed to plan for the distrubtion of funds to its United States customers.
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Gambling News Beware of evil affiliate!Read Full ArticleIf you have a website, go to google and type in inurl: yoursite.com -site:yoursite.com to find similair hijacks. This is part of the search for G&C: Google Search The person owning all these sites is stealing all the traffic and page rank from G&C. This is the person in question: Breederscupraces.com: Private Registration Host: 1&1 Internet, Inc.
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Gambling News NETELLER reaches a settlement with US Attorney’s OfficeRead Full ArticleNeteller announced that it has reached a Deferred Prosecution Agreement (DPA) with the United States Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York (USAO).Neteller has agreed to pay a $136 million dollar penalty to the United States. The deal also includes 18 months of monitoring by the United States government..
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Gambling News ONLINE GAMBLING NEWS: OECS Trade Ministers show Solidarity with Antiqua and Barbuda’s US Internet Gaming Challenges:Read Full ArticleJuly 17, 2007 Following a statement by the OECS (Organization of Eastern Caribbean States) trade ministers on Antiqua and Barbuda’s ongoing dispute with the United States on Internet Gaming. This statement is among the conclusions of the OECS ministers of trade meeting in St.
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Gambling News ONLINE GAMBLING NEWS: iMEGA/ UIGEA has a hearing scheduled for September 4, 2007Read Full ArticleAs we all wait patiently to see the outcome of iMEGA’s hearing they are going strong. In the state of New Jersey a Federal Judge assigned a hearing date for the lawsuit against US Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales. The lawsuit seeks to have a new online gambling law, as well as the UIGEA overturned. Judge Mary L. Cooper will hear the case. The target of the iMEGA is to ask the court to declare the UIGEA unconstitutional and unenforceable.
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Gambling News UIGEA FAILED TO MEET THE DATE TO ENFORCE THE BILLRead Full ArticleToday marked the end of the UIGEA’s 270 day deadline to enter into action the regulations of the bill. It failed to do so. Here are some comments by one of G&C’s sources in high places: “As of 5pm est.
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Gambling News RGA endorses Internet Gambling Initiative:Read Full ArticleRGA-Remote Gambling Association has announced an endorsing of the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative (SSIGI). Working to promote legalizing and regulating online gambling in the USA. In May of 2007 the SSIGI was created by two U.K. based companies in order to help strengthen the bill bought forward by Rep. Barney Frank.
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Gambling News GAMBLING NEWSRead Full ArticleThe law may be changed where Americans were stopped from playing online. The reasons why, read below: Will the UIGEA be reversed, changed, or revised? Read below to find out our up to date details. You might be shocked at the major companies that are supporting Barney Frank and the bills presented to make this turn around. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass, introduced a new bill to reform the UIGEA. The bill is IGREA- Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act.
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Gambling News Neteller co-founder Stephen Lawrence pleads guiltyRead Full ArticleStephen Lawrence, who founded Neteller together with John David Lafebvre, pleaded guilty today to charges of criminal conspiracy. Neteller processed billions of Dollars related to internet gambling. In a court room in Manhattan , NY, Stephen Lawrence said that he acknowledged that facilitating bets with offshore bookies was illegal. He agreed to be partially accountable for the 100 Million Dollars the government wants from people who were involved in the operation.
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Gambling News Barney Frank Gains more Co-Sponsors for his Internet Gambling Bill HR-2046Read Full ArticleCongressman Barney Frank is still out there for the American people, by gaining sponsors to his proposed bill to bring back legalization of online gambling.
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Gambling News Covers and USA Today have Joined ForcesRead Full ArticleAll of the online sports gambling and betting that are run by large companies is sweeping the nation these days, of which we bet more companies are sure to follow, what happened to the common American’s rights to online gambling on any site in their own homes? This article should spark your interests. Sports-book ads in USA Today.com may shock many people with this statement posted on their website; “USA Today.com and Covers.
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Gambling News Betcha’s Bold Platform stands on the Edge of GamblingRead Full ArticleBetcha is a platform for peer to peer betting where they allow users to bet on four markets; News, Business & Finance, Arts & Entertainment and Sports. The founder, Nick Jenkins, is like many founders with a brilliant idea, and may be a little crazy to think that Betcha has no worries about two related things; it is based in Seattle, WA and all debts are on the honor system. Nick Jenkins says that Betcha is a third way to gamble and an EBay site for bets.
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Gambling News The EU’s First Steps towards Supporting Sports-Betting ServicesRead Full ArticleThe European Commission is opening the door for sports-betting in countries close to home. We are hoping for the ripple effect to hit the US, where the online players can get back to a relaxing game in their own homes. Sweden and France have a request from the European Commission to amend their laws, following replies to letters of formal notice.
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Gambling News A UIGEA Injunction Hearing, Court Date is Coming SoonRead Full ArticleHold off on those life boats for now.
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Gambling News iMEGA Suit Challenges Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA)Read Full ArticleThe cases brought forth against the UIGEA are making more waves around the world as each week slips by. It may be time to break out the life-boats on the high seas of internet gambling until this storm blows by or internet gamblers are saved by an unseen force. With its suit challenging the UIGEA, iMEGA has made a splash in the US Circuit Court vs. Alberto Gonzales.
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Gambling News The WTO Online Gambling Case has Seven Compensation Claims against the U.S.Read Full ArticleFrom one to three, three to four and now seven countries with claims to file for compensations because there is a disagreement for online gambling, how many more countries will step forward for their claim? Only time will tell. In the ongoing WTO online gambling case between the U.S.
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Gambling News Internet Gambling Talks between President Bush and Antigua’s Prime MinisterRead Full ArticleWe can only hope that the talks between the US President and Antigua’s Prime Minister will only come out peacefully in the end, where the ban on US online gambling may eventually be lifted.
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Gambling News PartyGaming Cashing In; could become an Attractive Acquisition TargetRead Full ArticleYou heard it right, the chief executive at PartyGaming, Mitch Garber, as part of his planned series of share sales, has cashed in options worth more than £1.7m towards gifting the company’s employee trust a raft of shares to be awarded to employees. Party’s recent discussions with the US authorities, from an analyst’s note that was issued, could pave the way for the company to be snapped up by a US gaming or Internet giant.
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Gambling News Japan and India Join in Filing WTO Complaint against U.S.Read Full ArticleThe waters are getting choppy between the East, West and the Caribbean against the U.S. banning Internet gambling to U.S. players and their U.S. funds going to other countries. Geneva-The Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda, yesterday said; that for the United States’ failure to comply with a World Trade Organization ruling that it’s Internet gambling restrictions are illegal, the U.S. should face commercial sanctions worth more than 3 billion U.S.
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Gambling News EU Joins Antigua in Complaint against UIGEARead Full ArticleHow much will it take before the ban is lifted on U.S.
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Gambling News Neteller Hopes To Announce Further Progress by July 13thRead Full ArticleWell the expected announcement from Neteller regarding the release of funds from US accounts arrived and the expected details of prompt money distribution did not.
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Gambling News Testimony Given To House Committee - "Online Gambling Can Be Regulated In The US"Read Full ArticleRepresentative Barney Frank delivers as promised, taking the subject of online gambling to the House Committee on Financial Services last week.
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Gambling News Online Gambling Arrests Impact IndustryRead Full ArticleThe GIGSE or Global Interactive Gaming Summit & Expo as its formally known, is usually the online gaming industry’s biggest event, last year drawing 1800 attendees. Then came the arrests of online gambling executives while in the US and the attendance at this year’s GIGSE drew about half that amount.
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Gambling News Neteller Deadline Arrives For Plan To Distribute Funds To US CustomersRead Full ArticleWay back in March, Neteller announced that it had signed an agreement with USAO and Navigant to outline terms and a timeline that Neteller would use to re-distribute the confiscated funds of its US customers. “The Group is pleased to announce that on 20 March 2007, it signed agreements with the USAO and Navigant which, among other things, outline terms and a timeline under which NETELLER will work toward the orderly distribution of funds to its US customers.
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Gambling News Online Casino PartyGaming Volunteers Information to US Dept of JusticeRead Full ArticleBloomberg reports that PartyGaming has been voluntarily having talks with the US Department of Justice about their activities before the UIGEA was signed last year. “…the world’s biggest Internet poker company said it has held discussions with the U.S.
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Gambling News Will European Union Stand Against US And With Antigua In Online Gambling Battle?Read Full ArticleJune 19th marks the next in a long line of deadlines for Antigua and Barbuda in their battle against the only remaining super power on the planet. The small twin islands challenged the US stance against online gambling in a WTO court and after a 4 year battle was declared victor.
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Gambling News Presidential Candidate Questions US Treasury Dept About UIGEA DelaysRead Full ArticlePresidential hopeful Sen.
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Gambling News Betex Execs Resign Over Possible Chinese ProsecutionRead Full ArticleFollowing the arrest in April of three of Betex employees by China for allegedly being involved in illegal gambling, Peter Greenhill and Stuart Barker, the chief executive and finance director at Betex, resigned after failing to receive assurances from the Chinese authorities that they would not be arrested if they entered the country.
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Gambling News Guilty Of Federal Racketeering Charges Says BetOnSportsRead Full ArticleAccording to U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway and in a move that stunned the online gambling sector, BetOnSports PLC pleaded guilty to federal racketeering charges.
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Gambling News InterActive Gaming Council Gets New ChiefRead Full ArticleThe Interactive Gaming Council (IGC), which has as one of it’s corporate missions to promote and publicize the Gaming industry’s assets has appointed John Fitzgerald as its new chief executive. eGaming Review reports that Fitzgerald, who previously worked as general counsel at CryptoLogic, said he intended to redouble in his efforts to promote international regulation of the industry and that the sector was already very active in ensuring a safe environment for its customers.