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InternetNews
May 24, 2007
Roy Mark |
BetonSports Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Charges BetonSports, the British-based online gambling company that ran afoul of U.S. authorities last summer, pleaded guilty today to federal racketeering charges.   |
InternetNews
April 26, 2007
Roy Mark |
Lawmaker Bets on Legalizing Online Gambling A new bill proposes to allow Americans to wager online through licensed sites. |
InternetNews
March 30, 2007
Roy Mark |
Feds Nab Fugitive BetonSports Founder Gary S. Kaplan, one of two fugitive founding co-owners of BetonSports sought by U.S. authorities, was arrested Wednesday night in the Dominican Republic. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2006
Roy Mark |
BetonSports Agrees to Permanent U.S. Ban BetonSports, the London-based online gambling firm enmeshed in a legal maelstrom with the Department of Justice, agreed Thursday to a permanent injunction barring the company from doing business in the United States. |
InternetNews
July 18, 2006
Roy Mark |
Feds Arrest Offshore Gambling CEO U.S. authorities moved against one of the world's largest Internet gambling operations Monday, charging 11 individuals and four corporations with various counts of racketeering, conspiracy and fraud. |
InternetNews
November 15, 2006
Roy Mark |
New York Hits Internet Gambling Operation Law enforcement officials claim Web site was generating more than a $1 billion a year. |
InternetNews
January 24, 2007
Roy Mark |
BetonSports ID Thief Sentenced to 34 Months Beleaguered gambling site fell prey to identity theft shortly before indictments closed its U.S. operations. |
InternetNews
August 11, 2006
Roy Mark |
BetonSports Folds 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. |
Reason
June 2008
Jacob Sullum |
Some Bets Are Off The strangely selective and self-defeating crackdown on Internet gambling. |
InternetNews
September 6, 2006
Roy Mark |
Frist Pushing Internet Gambling Ban Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist targeted a ban on Internet gambling as a top priority for the U.S. Senate in the waning days of the 109th Congress. |
InternetNews
July 25, 2006
Roy Mark |
BetonSports Fires Jailed CEO U.K.-based online gambling operation seeks to put distance between itself and U.S. indictment. |
InternetNews
July 11, 2006
Roy Mark |
House Passes Ban on Internet Gambling In the sharpest attempt yet to curb Internet gambling by Americans, the U.S. House of Representatives voted today to ban financial payments to offshore casinos. |
InternetNews
September 17, 2004
Roy Mark |
Online Gambling Operation Betting on Congress BetonSports chief executive is leading campaign to change lawmaker attitudes about Internet gambling. |
InternetNews
December 20, 2007 |
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo Pay up on Gambling Fines The U.S. had accused Microsoft Corp, Google Inc and Yahoo of helping to promote illegal Internet gambling. |
InternetNews
August 28, 2006
Roy Mark |
BetonSports Still Stiffing U.S. Bettors Despite court order, American gamblers still holding losing hand. |
InternetNews
August 1, 2006
Roy Mark |
Former BetonSports CEO Pleads Not Guilty Court extends retraining order barring online gambling site from taking U.S. bets. |
InternetNews
May 4, 2006
Roy Mark |
House Panel Calls For Broader Gambling Ban A House subcommittee has approved legislation banning all forms of online gambling in the United States. |
InternetNews
July 19, 2006
Roy Mark |
An American Hypocrisy? Bet on It. The DoJ refuses to wait for clarification of U.S. online gambling laws. Just ask David Carruthers. |
InternetNews
July 7, 2006
Roy Mark |
Online Gambling up For House Debate Members of the U.S. House of Representatives may get an opportunity next week to place their bets on banning Internet gambling. |
Sports Central
January 25, 2007
Kevin Beane |
Dealing with the UIGEA The effect the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act has had on the U.S. gaming public has been palpable, but not devastating. |
InternetNews
March 16, 2006
Roy Mark |
House Seeks to Cut Cash Flow to Online Gambling Approved on a close voice vote by the House Financial Services Committee, the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act requires financial institutions to identify and block payments to offshore casinos, sports book and other online gambling sites. |
InternetNews
April 6, 2006
Roy Mark |
Banks Rap Internet Anti-Gambling Proposal Legislation designed to put a dent in Internet gambling ran into opposition Wednesday from the banking industry and, surprisingly, the Traditional Values Coalition. |
Reason
February 2009
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
Follow-Up: The Stakes Get Bigger Before you know it you'll have an interstate poker network in the U.S. All gambling lawyers and pundits agree that it isn't a matter of whether it will happen next year, but when. |
InternetNews
February 2, 2007
Roy Mark |
No Super Sunday For Online Gamblers U.S. campaign is making a dent in offshore operations and folding more than a few hands of online Texas Holdem. |
InternetNews
September 7, 2006
Roy Mark |
U.S. Detains Another Gambling Site Exec Peter Dicks, CEO of London-based BettingSports, held on Louisiana arrest warrant. |
InternetNews
October 2, 2006
Roy Mark |
Gambling Sites Folding U.S. Hand Before President Bush evens signs a new law aimed at curbing Internet gambling, online gaming companies are preparing to pull out of the lucrative U.S. market. |
InternetNews
January 26, 2007
Roy Mark |
Antigua Takes Upper Gambling Hand Over U.S. Antigua has won its latest long-shot effort to force the U.S. to open its market to offshore gambling, according to a confidential report issued by the World Trade Organization. |
Sports Central
August 18, 2010
Diane M. Grassi |
U.S. Ban on Online Gambling on Way Out? A look at the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, and efforts to overturn it like House Resolution 2267. H.R. 2267 has numerous problems. |
InternetNews
February 17, 2006
Roy Mark |
Lawmakers Bet on New Online Gambling Ban The Internet Gambling Prohibition Act proposes to make it illegal for Americans to use the Internet for gambling and would authorize law enforcement officials to stop credit card payments and other forms of electronic payments. |
Salon.com
October 5, 2002
Farhad Manjoo |
Betting on Uncle Sam Online gamblers are waiting for legislators to make their Wild West world a safer place to wager -- but the government keeps waffling. |
PC World
November 21, 2006
Andy Sullivan |
New Law Won't Stop Internet Gambling Federal legislation bans credit-card payments, but sites have alternatives. |
Reason
March 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Safe Bet New regulations, issued in November, no longer insist that banks and other payment processors figure out the difference between legal and illegal online gambling, a distinction Congress deliberately left vague. |
Reason
September 2004
Jacob Sullum |
Aiding and Betting Federal prosecutors say helping Americans find online casinos or sports betting operations could amount to "aiding and abetting" illegal gambling, a crime punishable by up to two years in prison. |
InternetNews
November 15, 2007
Sean Gallagher |
Lawmakers Hear Protests Over Internet Gambling Ban Legal experts, professional poker players and Justice Department representatives square off on current and proposed laws banning online betting. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2004
Roy Mark |
WTO Turns Up Heat on US Online Gambling Ban The office of the United States Trade Representative said it would "vigorously" appeal the "deeply flawed" decision by the World Trade Organization to open US borders to international Internet gambling casinos. |
Salon.com
October 22, 1999
Janelle Brown |
Gambling on the Net -- or not? As the country undergoes an anti-gambling backlash, Congress again attempts to restrict wagering online. |
InternetNews
June 8, 2007
Roy Mark |
New Deal For Online Gambling? From the courtroom to Congress, opponents of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 this week began playing their hands to undo the controversial legislation. |
InternetNews
April 7, 2005
Roy Mark |
U.S. Wins Hand in Gambling Feud The World Trade Organization sides with the U.S. in its online gambling dispute with Antigua. |
Reason
July 2007
Radley Balko |
Pirates of the Caribbean A three-judge panel found that the recently enacted Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act runs afoul of global trade agreements. |
U.S. Banker
September 2008
Anthony Malakian |
Dealt a Bad Hand This fall the House Financial Services Committee is finally expected to release its regulations for the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which was signed into law in 2006; banks are anxiously awaiting clarity on a number of fronts. |
PC Magazine
June 1, 2009
Chloe Albanesius |
Place Your Bets--Online New legislation could legalize Internet gambling in the U.S. |
InternetNews
November 11, 2008
Kenneth Corbin |
Top Dem Doubles Down in Online Gambling Fight Amid heated lobbying effort and sharp criticism, Bush administration races forward with Internet gambling rules. |
The Motley Fool
June 5, 2007
Tim Beyers |
Quick Take: Bring Back Digital Poker A comeback for Internet gambling may be in the works. The House Financial Services Committee said it will hold hearings to determine whether Internet gambling can be regulated in a way that balances individual freedom with consumer protection. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2005
Roy Mark |
U.S. Ordered to Clarify Online Casino Rules The World Trade Organization has given the United States until April to clarify its laws permitting Internet betting on horse racing but banning all other types of online gambling. |
InternetNews
May 18, 2006
Roy Mark |
Feds Indict Betting Site for Money Laundering The Department of Justice raised the stakes in its campaign against online gambling sites yesterday with money laundering indictments against Antigua-based Worldwide Telesports and its operators. |
InternetNews
December 17, 2007 |
U.S. Budges (a Little) on 'Net Gambling The United States has reached a deal with the European Union, Japan and Canada to keep its Internet gambling market closed to foreign companies, but is continuing talks with India, Antigua and Barbuda, Macau and Costa Rica. |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2004 |
"American Citizens Want To Gamble On The Internet" And they do. One off-shore gambling Web site claims that last year Americans accounted for 98% of its $1.25 billion in revenue. In this Q&A, BetonSports CEO David Carruthers speaks out against the Justice Department's move against him. |
Registered Rep.
March 29, 2007
Kevin Burke |
Ex-Merrill Broker Nabbed in Online Gambling Sting The latest instance of gambling ribaldry involves a former Merrill Lynch broker who was among 17 people arrested for allegedly operating a $30 million online-gambling operation out of a strip club, according to a Reuters report. |
CIO
February 1, 2003
Tom Wailgum |
E-Bookies As NFL fans and the two football finalists geared up for Super Bowl XXXVII on Jan. 26, in San Diego, so too were online gambling sites. It's a safe bet that a good portion of the Internet gambling industry's 2003 revenue (about $5 billion) was at stake. |
InternetNews
March 28, 2007
Roy Mark |
N.Y., N.J. Hit Internet Gambling Rings New York and New Jersey law enforcement officials busted two Internet bookmaking operations today that allegedly handled more than half a billion dollars in sports wagers over the last 16 months. |
