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Gambling News Peter Dicks Flushed By Louisiana Gambling by Computer LawRead Full ArticleBAYOUBUZZ.COM New Orleans, La.–You can bet that Peter Dicks is flushed as he fights to stay away from extradition to a Louisiana Court. The Louisiana anti-Internet Gambling law was designed to do exactly what it the state is doing—keep Internet gaming away from Louisiana.
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Gambling News GAMBLING EXECS NOT SAFE IN USRead Full Article24.COM | FIN24.COM Gaming chiefs not safe in US 10/09/2006 13:49 St Louis – Gambling industry experts agree: If you operate an offshore gaming website, stay out of the US. Moments after stepping foot on American soil on Thursday, Sportingbet plc Chairperson Peter Dicks became the second British offshore sports betting executive arrested in recent months for illegal online gambling in the US.
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Gambling News PETER DICKS, SPORTINGBET CHIEF, RELEASED ON $50,000 BAILRead Full ArticleBBC NEWS 09/09/06 The chairman of UK-based online gaming firm Sportingbet has been granted a $50,000 bail by a US court. Peter Dicks was held in New York on Thursday under a warrant issued by state authorities in Louisiana accusing him of “gambling by computer”. The court in Queens, New York, also ordered him to surrender his passport. Mr Dicks is to face another hearing on 14 September when the New York court will consider a request by the Louisiana authorities to extradite him.
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Gambling News Arrest adds pressure on Internet gamingRead Full ArticleTHE BOSTON GLOBE By Jeff Douglas, Associated Press Writer September 8, 2006 ST. LOUIS –Gambling industry experts agree: If you operate an offshore gaming Web site, stay out of the U.S. Moments after stepping foot on American soil Thursday, Sportingbet PLC Chairman Peter Dicks became the second British offshore sports betting executive arrested in recent months for illegal online gambling in the U.S.
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Gambling News Sportingbet PLC Chairman To Fight Extradition To LouisianaRead Full ArticleThursday September 7th, 2006 / 5h35 By Chad Bray Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- The non-executive chairman of Sportingbet PLC (SBT.LN) will fight extradition to Louisiana on charges of illegal Internet gambling, his lawyer said late Thursday. At a hearing in New York State Supreme Court in Queens, Peter Nieman, the lawyer for Peter Dicks, said his client will contest extradition to Louisiana and will ask a New York Supreme Court justice on Friday to release his client on bail.
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Gambling News ONLINE GAMBLING STOCKS DIVE - AGAIN - AS US DOJ HOLDS GAMING EXECUTIVE - AGAIN.Read Full ArticleREUTERS UK Thu Sep 7, 2006 2:05 PM BST162 By Pete Harrison LONDON (Reuters) – The United States detained a second Internet gaming executive on Thursday, adding to fears it is cracking down on the lucrative industry and sparking share price falls that wiped over $1.5 billion (800 million pounds) off the market value of the sector. Online bookmaker Sportingbet said its chairman, Peter Dicks, had been detained by U.S.
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Gambling News eCOGRA NEEDS YOUR INPUT FOR ONLINE GAMBLING SURVEYRead Full ArticleHERE IS YOUR CHANCE TO SPEAK YOUR MIND An invitation for you to give your views in the biggest online gambling survey ever launched How often have you wanted to tell the top management of the online gambling venues that you use how they should be running things to achieve better customer satisfaction? Those times when you might want to point out areas where improvements could be made; new ideas you think might work well or praise for facets of an operation that you think gets it right? Well &...
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Gambling News Online Gambling Legislation Opposed by Independent Community Bankers of AmericaRead Full ArticleBankNet 360 Posted By: Vince Ryan Aug 30 2006 06:00:10 PDT ICBA Opposes Bill to Stop Illegal Online Gambling Congressional legislation that would attempt to block electronic transfers between U.S. gamblers and offshore casinos is being opposed by the Independent Community Bankers of America, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Gambling News FORMER ONLINE GAMBLING EXEC MAKES BAILRead Full ArticleBusinessWeek.com The Associated Press/ST. LOUIS By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD AP Business Writer AUG. 16 3:17 P.M. ET Former online gambling executive David Carruthers was freed on a $1 million bond Wednesday after spending nearly a month behind bars following his arrest on racketeering and fraud charges. Carruthers, 48, was freed after a hearing before U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Medler. He had been expected to be released as early as Monday but it took days to work out technical details.
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Gambling News Bettors Deserve Better - Crusade against online sports gambling is unfairRead Full ArticleSI.com Justin Doom > Doom’s Day Tuesday August 15, 2006 4:12PM The only safe place to bet on sports is in Las Vegas. At this rate, it’s only a matter of time before I’m in jail. In fact, I wonder what the odds on that would be. Maybe I can find a Web site that will offer a line. But I’d better find it soon. Did you hear what happened to the folks over at BetOnSports.com? After recently being singled out and indicted by U.S.
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Gambling News WinnerOnLine Interviews Lawrence G WaltersRead Full ArticleAn Interview With Lawrence G. Walters: Part I, originally published at >WINNERONLINE – http://www.winneronline.com by Karl Yu, Winneronline 15 August, 2006 There are a lot of legal implications when it comes to online gaming and America’s stance against it. Over the past six months the U.S.
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Gambling News More Problems for BetOnSports and AssociatesRead Full ArticleIt’s been reported that shareholders of BOS are considering legal action against BOS advisors based on the fact that they (advisors) did not mention any unfavorable background on Gary Kaplan, previous owner of the company prior to the the stock offering. It’s rumored that Kaplan has left Costa Rica for parts unknown but the middle east is suspected. He was included in the indictment against BOS for, among other charges, fraud and racketeering.
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Gambling News eCOGRA Achieves 100 Online Casinos Target Months Ahead of ScheduleRead Full ArticleGambling Standards Authority Issues its 107th “Play It Safe” Seal to Accredited Online Casinos and Poker Rooms LONDON, August 14 /PRNewswire/ — The online gambling standards and player protection body, eCommerce and Online Gaming Regulation and Assurance (http://www.eCOGRA.org), today announced it achieved its target of accrediting 100 online casinos and poker rooms before December 2006. eCOGRA launched its 100 Seals campaign in May this year with 76 accredited sites.
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Gambling News Jeff Haney on a dying scheme to hustle online casinosRead Full ArticleLAS VEGAS SUN SPORTS August 14, 2006 at 7:29:0 PDT The federal government’s recent crackdown on online gambling has thrust the largely unregulated, sometimes bizarre backwater of Internet casinos into the spotlight. Not long after the House of Representatives passed legislation this summer designed to clamp down on online gambling, the boss of Costa Rica-based BetOnSports was arrested while changing planes in Texas.
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Gambling News Online Gambling Company Still TargetRead Full ArticleBelleville News Democrat Sat, Aug. 12, 2006 Associated Press ST. LOUIS – Federal prosecutors said Friday they will continue prosecuting BetOnSports PLC even though the online gambling company is shutting down its operations that take bets from U.S. customers. Separately, U.S.
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Gambling News BetOnSports folds to USRead Full ArticleINB – Internet News Bureau August 11, 2006 BetonSports Folds U.S. Hand By Roy Mark Betonsports.com is folding its U.S. hand. With the British-based company named in a 22-count indictment for violating American gambling laws and its former CEO sitting in a St. Louis jail, BetonSports said Friday it was permanently cutting off access to its site for U.S. bettors. The site has been dark for American online gamblers since last month when a U.S.
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Gambling News BetOnSports Refunding Options LimitedRead Full ArticleITBusinessNet.com Gamblers hoping to get money back after betting Web site shuts down By ADAM GOLDMA, AP Business Writer Since BetOnSports PLC started accepting wagers online, gamblers played the odds on plenty of sporting events. But they also gambled on whether U.S.
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Gambling News US sheds few tears for CarruthersRead Full ArticleTimes Online August 07, 2006 By Walter Olson Like Prohibition-era Oklahomans who were said to stagger to the polls to vote dry, America these days is a gambling-mad country happy to elect officials who outdo each other in anti-gambling fervor.
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Gambling News A fool.com post about cryptologicRead Full Articlefool.com cryptologic post The following is a post from Fool.com, one of my favorite stock related sites. If you haven’t checked it out, do yourself a favor and do! “POST OF THE DAY Cryptologic, Inc. One last thing… By DemonDoug August 9, 2006 Posts selected for this feature rarely stand alone. They are usually a part of an ongoing thread, and are out of context when presented here.
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Gambling News The400Group Launches New Art-Themed i-SlotRead Full ArticleReel Crime 2: Art Heist is Latest To Add Fun, Interactive Features to Classic Slot ExperienceJuly 27, 2006- The400Group today announced the release of Reel Crime 2: Art Heist, a new i-Slot from Rival Gaming.
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Gambling News US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WARNS NET GAMBLING BILL WILL HURT FNANCIAL GROUPSRead Full ArticleBy Lilly Vitorovich Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce wants the Senate to amend the controversial Internet gambling legislation, saying it would impose a “substantial regulatory burden” on financial institutions.
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Gambling News NOT GUILTY PLEAS ENTERED FOR BETONSPORTS CEORead Full Articlebellevillenewsdemocrate.com JEFF DOUGLAS Associated Press ST.
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Gambling News Belle Rock Summer Fling, Brand New Ways to Win More Bling!Read Full ArticleNew Giveaways Including Winning Is Easy, Winners Get It All and Live the Winning Life Headline Belle Rock’s New August Promotions Gibraltar, August 1, 2006 – Today Belle Rock Entertainment announced the launch of six new fantastic promotions across their popular group of online casinos and poker rooms, River Belle (www.riverbelle.com), Lucky Nugget (www.luckynugget.com), The Gaming Club (www.gamingclub.com), and Jackpot City (www.jackpotcity.com).
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Gambling News Allyn Jaffrey Shulman Joins Poker Players Alliance Board of DirectorsRead Full ArticleWASHINGTON, July 28, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) — The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), a non-profit grassroots organization that has grown to more than 75,000 American poker players, today announced that Allyn Jaffrey Shulman, an expert in gaming law, is joining the PPA board of directors. “I am delighted that Allyn has agreed to join our board,” said Michael Bolcerek, president of the Poker Players Alliance.
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Gambling News HEARINGS SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY IN BETONSPORTS CASERead Full ArticleBUSINESS WEEK July 28, 2006, 3:58PM By DAN CATERINICCHIA AP Business Writer © 2006 The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Attorneys at the Justice Department headquarters here have been involved from the outset of an investigation by the US Attorney’s office in St.
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Gambling News THERE'S BIG BUCKS IN WEB GAMBLINGRead Full ArticleABC NEWS By MICHAEL P. REGAN AP Associated Press July 28, 2006 — Question: Can I get in trouble for gambling on the Internet? Answer: Despite the recent high-profile indictments of the founder and CEO of Internet gambling company BetOnSports PLC, it does not appear that online gamblers in most U.S.
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Gambling News Outlook dims in US Senate for online gambling billRead Full ArticleREUTERS By Peter Kaplan and Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON, July 26 (Reuters) – Prospects have dimmed for swift U.S. Senate passage of a bill to outlaw most forms of Internet gambling as industry trade groups and lawmakers raise objections, congressional sources said on Wednesday. Efforts to move a House-passed measure through the Senate have run into opposition from lobbyists representing casino owners and horse- and dog-racing interests in recent days.
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Gambling News Bet-On-Sports Fires CEO But Mystery Surrounds Former Founder Gary KaplanRead Full ArticleThe INQUIRERBy Tony Dennis: Wednesday 26 July 2006, 10:23 LEADING UK online betting site, Betonsports has fired its CEO. Mainly because he is under arrest in Fort Worth,Texas.
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Gambling News BETONSPORTS SACKS ARRESTED CEORead Full ArticleGuardian Unlimited Tuesday July 25, 2006 Mark Tran The online gambling company BetonSports today sacked its chief executive after his arrest in the US on fraud charges. David Carruthers was arrested last week at Dallas-Fort Worth international airport, Texas, while on his way from the UK to Costa Rica, where BetonSports is based.
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Gambling News A HYPOCRITICAL INTERNET GAMBLING BANRead Full ArticleTHE HAMILTON SPECTATOR Protecting American family values — or the offline industry? Gambling is one of the great successes of online commerce.