While the online poker bill co-authored by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) shows little sign of gaining traction in the lame duck session of Congress, that isn’t stopping opponents from making their opinions known.
Read More . . .Rafe Furst became the first of the four ownership figures associated with Tiltware to reach a settlement with the Department of Justice on Black Friday-related charges.
Read More . . .Law enforcement officers on Wednesday arrested six Big Island residents on charges they ran an illegal gambling business in Kailua-Kona. A seventh defendant charged in the same scheme lives in Arizona.
Read More . . .The head of a new committee in the Senate set to focus on gaming issues says he expects the panel to conduct a thorough study of gambling in Florida instead of moving quickly.
Read More . . .Months after D.C. lawmakers repealed a measure that would have allowed first-in-the-nation online gambling on home computers and at select sites in the shadow of Capitol Hill, several states are forging ahead with online games of chance while a harried Congress remains unlikely to pass a federal bill that would regulate the practice.
Read More . . .Jacktrade LLC, a defunct Las Vegas company, recently pleaded guilty to running an illegal offshore sportsbook. The case, which has been going on since 2006 (seriously?) is unrelated to the Mike Colbert/Cantor/Pinnacle bust.
Read More . . .The proposal to build mega-casinos in South Florida never made it to a final vote in the last session of the Florida Legislature. Now it looks like the issue may not be coming up again for at least another year.
Read More . . .The Iron Bowl attracts plenty of interest, and that includes the illegal kind.
Read More . . .Full Tilt's new owners PokerStars are likely smiling at the news that a former US solicitor general believes the 'bad actor' prohibitions contained in the online poker bill proposed by Senators Harry Reid and Jon Kyl may not stand up in court.
Read More . . .Senate leaders are less optimistic about moving online gambling legislation through Congress during the lame-duck session than they were just a few months ago.
Read More . . .Under the whip of political and economic pressures, the federal government and some states are racing toward legalizing online gambling and, on Tuesday, a key Connecticut legislator said the state should re-examine the matter when the General Assembly convenes in January.
Read More . . .The Treasurer and Receiver-General for the US state of Massachusetts, Steven Grossman, has joined with the National Governors Association (NGA) in opposing proposed federal legislation that could see some forms of online poker and off-track horserace wagering legalised.
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