Gambling News Blog

April 22 – With so many talented three-year-old contenders set to run in this year’s Kentucky Derby, it’ll be hard to choose which ones to bet on. For this reason we have made life a little easier for horseracing fans all over the world by compiling the following list of top ten Power Rankings. No. [...]

The department of justice in Switzerland received the order, to create a draft legislation, with the purpose of licensing an regulating a small number of internet gambling businesses. They do want to keep the ban on gambling through phone and interactive TV. The change in legislation has to be put before the parliament. Annalists and [...]

The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative (SSIGI), has been around long enough to make a sterling contribution to the debate on legalising online gambling in the United States, prompted by its goal of freedom for individuals to safely and legally gamble over the Internet. This week the organisation announced an extensive revamp of its [...]

Last week was announced that PartyGaming struck a deal with the US government, to not get prosecuted for their gambling businesses before UIGEA was installed, of 105 million dollar. They claim its for upholding the law, while in the meantime a lot of money goes to the people behind these deals. A similar case in [...]

A prosecutor dropped charges on a Pennsylvanian casino holder Yesterday, he was accused of lying about his contacts with organised crime and other underworld figures. As part of the agreement, he has to turnover the casino to his daughter. Louis DeNaples a Scranton businessman who owns the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Pennsylvania, was charged [...]

The Freeport in the Bahamas was the scene of some anti-gambling raids and arrests last week as local police moved on companies that they alleged were in breach of the Lottery and Gaming Act and in possession of slot machines, thus operating gambling activities under the guise of legitimate freeport businesses. Gambling related charges were [...]

Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D – Mass., announced that he will introduce the Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act (HR 2046) as a standalone bill before the end of April. If passed, the bill could overturn the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, which prohibits U.S. financial institutions from processing payments to online-gaming operators. [...]

The biggest opponent of the UIGEA (Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act) Barney Frank, wants to pass a bill, which will cancel out the UIGEA. Ex-Senator Bill Frist passed the UIGEA in 2006, by waiting until right before the ending of the session, he attached the UIGEA to a homeland security bill. No lawmaker wants to [...]

David Carruthers, the former CEO of BetOnSports pleaded guilty today in a US District Court to racketeering conspiracy charges. He told Judge Carol Jackson that at first he did not think the company was doing anything illegal. Carruthers actually had many of his charges dropped in the case because of his willingness to help cooperate [...]

Hackers protesting the secret censorship blacklists of the Australian government exposed by Wikileaks caused the online censorship board’s web page to be taken briefly offline Thursday, reports the Wired.com blog. Whilst Communications Minister Stephen Conroy was doing the talkshow rounds trying to rationalise the secretive censorship moves of the government’s Australian Media and Communications Authority, [...]