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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 [...]

St. Paul resident Chris Wallace said he makes about $2,000 a week playing poker online, enough to support himself, his fiancée 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]