[caption id="attachment_20320" align="alignright" width="254" caption="Winning the online poker race could be a real prize for the Garden State."][/caption] The race to become the first state offering legal online poker in the United State is on and New Jersey is giving everyone a serious run for their money. Earlier this month, a New Jersey Senate committee…
[caption id="attachment_20192" align="alignright" width="251" caption="Nevada's favored to win the online poker race."][/caption] When the Department of justice reinterpreted the Federal Wire Act last Christmas, they also set off race amongst state governments to see who would be the first to offer legal intrastate online poker. Since then, various states have been moving forward, and trying…
On April 15, the poker industry will mark one year since its darkest day, Black Friday. That's when the Department of Justice virtually shut down the entire American online poker industry in a single indictment that was packed with allegations of financial wrongdoing by poker's biggest names. Since that dark day, the online poker industry…
Black Friday, One Week Later: One week after the fateful date of April 15, no one was sure what the hell was going on. We even thought that players who had money at the seized domains would be paid under a special agreement offered by the US authorities. We're still waiting... Black Friday, Six Weeks…
[caption id="attachment_19326" align="alignright" width="211" caption="Online gaming should lift slumping AC casino revenues."][/caption] Sports bettors across the country could legally place sports bets with New Jersey casinos, no matter where the bettor is located, under the terms of a new bill making its way through the State Legislature. The measure, which made it out of a…
What do Mafia legend John Gotti, subway vigilante Bernhard Goetz; and Calvin Ayre all have in common? These three notorious figures have all sought the counsel of legendary New York attorney Barry I. Slotnick. Slotnick, his son Stuart and four other legal all-stars from the firm of Buchannan Ingersoll & Rooney PC have all been…
[caption id="attachment_18880" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Football betting is very popular in Bulgaria"][/caption] Bulgaria is serious about enforcing its new online gaming laws and proved with a recent set of police raids on illegal gaming operations. Over the weekend more than 120 officers from the Computer Crimes, Intellectual Property and Gambling section of the Organized Crime Directorate…
[caption id="attachment_18858" align="alignright" width="201" caption="Elie faces sentencing in October."][/caption] Chad Elie plead guilty to charges of conspiring to commit bank fraud and operating an illegal gambling business in relation to the Black Friday case that shut down American online poker almost exactly a year ago. Elie’s case was settled on a plea bargain that helped…
[caption id="attachment_18799" align="alignright" width="259" caption="Gambling is frowned upon in Kentucky."][/caption] The Commonwealth of Kentucky is seizing 132 gambling domains in the latest step in a case that stretches back to 2008. According to Kentucky prosecutors, the domains in question represent illegal gambling devices and are in violation of the state's gaming laws. Although the case…
[caption id="attachment_18708" align="alignright" width="277" caption="Cleveland (Internet Sweepstakes shops not pictured)."][/caption] A Cleveland, Ohio jury delivered guilty charges against six men charged with running an illegal Internet Sweepstakes operation. The charges included gambling, operating a gambling house and possession of criminal tools. (In this case the computers used by the businesses were considered criminal tools.) The…
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