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When financial needs override the hypocritical morals… In a statement on Thursday, the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank vowed to seek the repeal of UIGEA as part of a package of US financial reforms. It’s unclear if the act ever actually succeeded at retargeting scurrilous online gamblers back towards resorts or [...]

A senior Democratic lawmaker will push legislation this year to repeal a U.S. ban on Internet gambling that has hurt trade ties with the European Union, a congressional aide said. “The bill introduction should happen in the next month,” a spokesman for House of Representatives Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said. On Thursday, Reuters [...]

It’S business as usual for Manx-based e-gaming businesses – despite dramatic developments in the States which have seen one of the founders of online poker pleading guilty to a charge relating to illegal web betting. Anurag Dikshit, the former director of Gibraltar-based PartyGaming, could face a maximum two years behind bars after admitting one count [...]

Kentucky authorities want to seize 140 Internet domain names, saying the web sites bring illegal gambling within the borders of the commonwealth. Attorneys for a trade association for the gambling web sites countered that Kentucky lacks the authority to make that move because the domain names aren’t property and, besides, they are based offshore and [...]

Collaboration by two of the world’s most respected news organizations reveals how online poker players suspecting cheating were forced to successfully ferret out the cheaters themselves. That’s because managers of the mostly-unregulated $18 billion Internet gambling industry failed to respond to their complaints. The results of the four-month investigation by 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft, [...]