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 [...]
Barney Frank Speaks Out Against UIGEA, Again
March 8th, 2009 No Comments
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Antigua, US extend deadline for compromise on Internet gambling
July 20th, 2008 No Comments
In a continuing saga of US and Antigua trying to arrive to a compromise about US banning internet gambling, which was a large industry in Antigua, Antigua’s finance minister says it could take several more months to resolve an Internet gambling feud with the U.S.The countries have been at odds since the World Trade Organization [...]
US and Antigua, Barbuda Could Settle WTO Dispute by Next Week
March 27th, 2008 1 Comment
According to the Antigua Sun a settlement proposal due by the end of the month could put an end to the five-year trade battle over Internet gaming between Antigua and Barbuda and the United States.
According to Mark Mendel, Antigua and Barbuda’s attorney in its World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute, the US is scheduled to put [...]
