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PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker Under FBI Scrutiny

April 18th, 2011 No Comments

The owners and founders of the three largest online gambling sites in the United States have been indicted and charged with bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling offenses. New York prosecutors say they’ve issued restraining orders against more than 75 bank accounts in 14 countries used by the poker companies, which they say will [...]

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Minnesota wants Internet providers to block Internet Gambling Web Sites

April 30th, 2009 No Comments

St. Paul resident Chris Wallace said he makes about $2,000 a week playing poker online, enough to support himself, his fiancĂ©e and his dog. He’s not about to stop, even as Minnesota officials take new steps to try to crack down on online gambling. “I have e-mailed the Justice Department, and I’ve volunteered to be [...]

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State Specific Suits Make Way Through Courts

March 24th, 2009 No Comments

Appeals court says no to online poker in Washington when it rejected Lee Rousso’s arguments that a 2006 law that forbids Internet gambling in the state violates the clause of the U.S. Constitution that gives the federal government the right to regulate interstate commerce. The unanimous decision by three judges of division I of the [...]

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Kentucky Domains Case goes to Court of Appeals

December 13th, 2008 No Comments

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 [...]

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Putting Kentucky on the Map of Online Gambling World

October 14th, 2008 No Comments

For those living under a rock, for at least the last month the internet gaming world has been abuzz with a development in Kentucky, where the Governor has recently tried to take control of the domain names of online gambling sites that are operating legally outside of the United States because “gambling devices” which are [...]

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