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Gambling News South Africa Works To Control Online Gambling By LegalizationRead Full ArticleAn article in The Herald (www.theherald.co.za) discussed the legalization of online gambling in South Africa. According to the article, the attitude of the South African government is ‘if you can’t beat them join them… or at least regulate them’ . ‘Them’ in this case is the online gambling industry. After watching the U.S.
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Gambling News YouTeller Launch Postponed After Legal Problems With NetellerRead Full ArticleNewswireToday London, United Kingdom, 04/19/2007 London-based technology company not interested in NETeller takeover. After facing legal problems with NETeller Plc. Seed Capital Ltd. decided to delay the launch of their new payment processor YouTeller.com. “It is in everyone’s interest that YouTeller will not be confused with NETeller,” said Seed Capital spokesman Florian Schweitzer.
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Gambling News Neteller Co-Founders Date With DOJ Recheduled For May 16, 2007Read Full ArticleJohn Lefebvre and Stephen Lawrence, co-founders of Neteller and reluctant guests of the state of New York for the last 3 months have agreed to yet another continuance with the US DOJ. Judge Moss granted the continuance in the interests of Justice and the case has been rescheduled for May 16, 2007. Lefebvre and Lawrence were arrested on January 15, 2007 Founders Of Neteller Arrested On Both Coasts Of U.S.
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Gambling News Online Gambling Ban Criminalizes America's Favorite PastimeRead Full ArticleBloomberg By Ann Woolner April 13 (Bloomberg) — As friends whom I shall not name gathered Saturday night at an undisclosed location, I looked around the table and realized it was surrounded by criminals. The evidence was everywhere. The cards, the poker chips, the bowl of money that served as the bank showed these solid citizens to be lawbreakers.
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Gambling News Internet Gambling Campaign Launched To Repeal UIGEARead Full ArticleCasino Gambling Web has started a campaign labeled ‘Outcry’ which includes phone calls, letters and emails to members of congress denouncing UIGEA and asking for repeal of the unpopular legislation. According to their website “Congressman Barney Frank has said he will strongly support a repeal of what he calls ‘the stupidest law’ in the history of the United States if the public outcry for a repeal is loud enough.
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Gambling News Congressman Frank Will Introduce Bill In Next 2 Weeks To Repeal Internet Gambling BanRead Full ArticleREUTERS Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:34AM EDT By Huw Jones BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A bill to end a ban imposed last year on online gambling in the United States will be presented within two weeks but will likely need time to garner support, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank said on Thursday. Internet gambling in the United States was effectively banned last October when President George W.
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Gambling News LA Times Urges US To Repeal Online Gambling BanRead Full ArticleLos Angeles Times Sunday, April 8, 2007 ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, former British colonies on the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea, are smaller than Los Angeles and less populous than Burbank. Yet they may be able to force the world’s most powerful government to change its gambling laws. Not since 1960 has it been legal under federal law to place or take bets on sports using interstate or international phone lines.
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Gambling News EC Requests Member States To Amend Gambling LawsRead Full ArticleCZECH BUSINESS By: Judit Zegnál, 02. 04.
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Gambling News Gambling Lobbies Spend Millions AnnuallyRead Full Article
USA TODAY By Diana Marrero, Gannett News Service WASHINGTON — Casinos, Indian tribes and other groups spent millions lobbying Congress last year as lawmakers considered bills to ban wagering online and off Indian reservations… The $25 million the gaming industry spent on lobbying in 2006 was a slight increase over the previous year’s total, but down from the $28.
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Gambling News WTO Official Ruling: US Internet Gambling Ban IllegalRead Full ArticleBloombergBy Warren Giles March 30 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. ban on offshore Internet gambling payments is illegal, the World Trade Organization said today, upholding a previous decision that allowed for possible sanctions… Antigua and Barbuda, a Caribbean nation of 80,000 people, has challenged Bush administration efforts to close the estimated $12 billion global business to U.S. residents, who account for half of the market. The U.S.
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Gambling News Online Gambling Prohibition Results in Offshore Gambling BoomRead Full Article
Information Week By Alice LaPlante March 29, 2007 04:00 AM Far from slowing its growth, a government crackdown on online gambling has sent many sites offshore, and many others underground. But it’s a good bet that Internet poker will remain a booming industry. “…But not everyone was so easily spooked. A large numbers of online gambling companies chose to keep their casinos open. Although now operating illegally according to U.S.
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Gambling News Walmart Provides Poker Players An Alternative To Unsafe Payment ProcessorsRead Full ArticleThe Register Thursday 29th March 2007 House of Cards The online payment processing industry took it in the chops again this week, as the Electronic Clearinghouse, Inc (ECHO) settled with the US government over allegations that it profited from online gaming transactions by supplying Neteller with payment processing services prior to the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) last October.
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Gambling News UK House of Lords Deals Joker To Online Gaming PlansRead Full Article
Telegraph By Harry Wallop Last Updated: 1:22am BST 30/03/2007 The casino industry never had a particularly high opinion of the Government but, after the events of the past 10 days, Labour ministers are being viewed with as much relish as a card-counter at a blackjack table. “The UK is the laughing stock of the world, it really is,” said one senior casino executive.
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Gambling News Deal With DOJ Means No Charges Against ECH Payment ProcessorRead Full ArticleREUTERS March 28, 2007 U.S. prosecutors said on Wednesday they had reached an agreement to not file charges against payment processor Electronic Clearing House Inc. (ECHO.O: Quote, Profile , Research), saying the company is cooperating with the government’s probe into Internet gambling. The company was involved in the transfer of money on behalf of online payment services known as “e-wallets,” which mostly handled illegal transactions with online gambling Web sites, the U.S.
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Gambling News Online Gambling Shoots Down ECHO / Intuit DealRead Full ArticleDIGITAL TRANSACTIONS (March 27, 2007) Merchant processor Electronic Clearing House Inc. and accounting-software giant Intuit Inc. on Tuesday announced that their planned $142 million merger is off. ECHO chairman and chief executive Joel M.
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Gambling News Sportingbet to Move Online Gambling Operation to Channel IslandsRead Full ArticleLedger-Enquirer Wed, Mar. 28, 2007 Associated Press LONDON – Online gambling company Sportingbet PLC, forced to quit the U.S. after lawmakers effectively made the business illegal, said Wednesday it will transfer the group’s operations to the Channel Islands. The company said it is making the move offshore because there remains uncertainty surrounding the precise operational requirements of the 2005 U.K. Gambling Act.
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Gambling News Neteller Halts Service to Canadian and Turkish Online Gambling MarketRead Full ArticleGamingIntelligenceGroup March 26, 2007 NETeller Plc, the British online money transfer business, today announced that it was withdrawing its payment services to online gaming sites for Canadian and Turkish customers. The move is in response to recent regulatory developments surrounding online gaming in Canada and Turkey, which have significantly increased the risk to the Groups ongoing business in those markets.
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Gambling News EU Tells Germany To Rethink Plans To Ban Online GamblingRead Full ArticleREUTERS Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:54 PM BST20 By Huw Jones BRUSSELS, March 23 (Reuters) – German regions have been told by the European Commission to rethink plans to ban online gambling or face possible legal action, an official at the EU’s executive arm said on Friday. It is the latest clash between Brussels and European Union countries over the betting industry, which is restricted to state-owned monopolies in some EU member countries.
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Gambling News 15% RTG Tax Hurts UK Aspiration To Lead In Online GamblingRead Full ArticleeGamingReview reported the Remote Gaming Association (RGA) has expressed disappointment at the 15% rate which the UK chancellor Gordon Brown has set for the new remote gaming tax. The remote gaming tax rate has been set at the same rate as gross profits tax payable by UK-based bookmakers. John Coates, RGA chairman, said the 15% rate means the UK government has “effectively turned its back on the industry”.
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Gambling News Neteller Funds Seized By DOJ May Be Released Within Next 75 DaysRead Full ArticleREUTERS UK Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:40 AM BST137 LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) – British payment processor NETeller (NLR.L: Quote, Profile , Research) said on Wednesday it expected to announce a plan to distribute funds seized by U.S. prosecutors to its U.S. customers within the next 75 days. NETeller quit the United States in January, abandoning 65 percent of its business, after authorities there arrested its two founders in a crackdown on online gaming. A month later, NETeller said U.S.
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Gambling News Frank Promises Details On Repeal Of Online Gambling BanRead Full ArticleREUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rep. Barney Frank said on Thursday he will give details in the coming weeks on possible legislation to repeal a ban imposed last year on online gambling. In an interview, the chairman of the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee said he is in no hurry and plans to consult with others on the matter. “I’m not ready to give you more details, but I will be by next week or so. We’ll talk more about it later.
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Gambling News Barney Frank Works On Legislation To Repeal Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement ActRead Full ArticleeGaming Review The office of US Congressman Barney Frank, who is chairman of the House financial services committee, has confirmed that he is currently working on legislation to repeal the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. The news item appeared this afternoon on the Financial Times website and has been confirmed to eGaming Review by Frank’s press department.
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Gambling News Speculation On Dropped Charges For Neteller Founders Fuels Online Gaming Stock RiseRead Full ArticleUK online gambling stock rose earlier this month amid speculation that US Congressman Barney Frank was going to introduce legislation calling for a review of UIGEA.
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Gambling News Online Gambling Sites Work Around UIGEARead Full ArticleSan Francisco Chronicle Tom Somach, Special to The Chronicle Monday, March 12, 2007 Thinking of going online and wagering on a few games in the upcoming NCAA basketball tournament? Uncle Sam doesn’t want you to, but he’s having trouble stopping anyone. The government’s latest effort to get Americans to stop gambling via the Internet has been largely ineffective, according to the online gambling industry.
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Gambling News China Adds Online Gaming To National Security Risk ListRead Full ArticleTHE REGISTER By Burke Hansen in San Francisco → More by this author Monday 12th March 2007 House of Cards-Although the Chinese government recently announced a purifying moratorium on internet cafes – the same week the Communist Youth League penned a contract with leading gaming developer Playtech to provide software for large scale internet-based gambling tournaments – the cadres in Beijing know that internet cafes are only an embodiment of something much larger and more threat...
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Gambling News Man Gets Probation For Running Sports Gambling OperationRead Full ArticleFon du Lac Reporter By Amie Jo Schaenzer A Ripon business owner who told a judge he didn’t make any money off a sports gambling operation he ran has been placed on probation for one year and ordered to perform 100 hours of community service. During a plea and sentencing hearing Friday for Dan D.
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Gambling News Canada Warns Alberta Cree Band To Halt Online Gambling PlansRead Full ArticleCanada.com Tuesday, March 06, 2007 EDMONTON (CP) – Alberta’s top cop is warning a Cree band to halt plans to set up an Internet gambling haven on their reserve near Edmonton. Solicitor General Fred Lindsay also says he’s become aware that the Mohawks, who run illegal gambling operations in Quebec, have been advising the Alexander First Nation.
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Gambling News China Vows To Crush Online Gambling For Harmony's SakeRead Full ArticleTHE REGISTER Anti-obsession controls already in place By Burke Hansen in San Francisco Wednesday 28th February 2007 Due to its proximity to mainland China, gambling development in Macau has exploded – recently even surpassing Las Vegas’ legendary Strip in revenue terms – and international players, such as Ladbrokes, have been positioning themselves to expand into the mainland itself when the time is right. It could be a long wait.
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Gambling News Former 888 CEO To Show At Interview With French AuthoritiesRead Full ArticleeGaming Review eGaming Review has learned that John Anderson will attend the interview with the French authorities on March 13. 888 said in a statement this morning that its non-executive director and former chief executive had been asked to attend the interview with the French gaming authorities. The company added that the French market represented “an immaterial percentage of its business” and that it would continue to consult its legal advisers in relation to this matter.
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Gambling News Double Standards of US Politicians In ActionRead Full ArticleThere’s been a lot of talk recently through radio, articles and blogs regarding the double standard being used by the United States, most apparent lately in the area of gambling. As online gambling enthusiasts, we’ve seen US politicians assume the role of parent and pass judgment and legislation against the sins of online gambling and punished us by restricting the use of our own money in our own homes.