March 31 2001
Dockside loses roll of the dice
The Indiana Senate Rules Committee voted 5-3 against a bill that would have allowed dockside riverboat gambling in the state. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Larry Borst, is pessimistic about the fate of the legislation: "This won't be resurrected this time. This is it. We let the system do its will."
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March 30 2001
Ohio Taxpayers Association Cautions Against Rainy Day Fund
COLUMBUS, Ohio - The Ohio Taxpayers Association (OTA) today cautioned Governor Taft against raiding Ohio's "Rainy Day" state savings account to help cover shortfalls in state revenue.
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March 30 2001
Gaming's going to the dogs
Just when TAB looked as if it had escaped the political risk which has dogged southern counterpart Tabcorp, the Federal Government threw a spanner in the works this week.  The proposal to ban Australian companies from offering online gaming to residents could cost TAB $17 million worth of bets its Web site is expected to take this financial year. Analysts do caution, though, that the proposed legislation would have a limited impact on earnings in the short term.
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March 29 2001
Interactive gambling ban
The Federal Government will shortly introduce legislation to prohibit Australian gambling service providers from providing online and interactive gambling and wagering services to people located in Australia, the Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Richard Alston announced today.
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March 29 2001
Govt accuses ALP of being in league with gambling industry
Communications Minister Richard Alston says Labor is in bed with the gambling industry, because it has rejected plans for a ban on Internet gambling. The proposal for a ban was unveiled by the Federal Government yesterday, with the moratorium on Internet gambling due to end in May.
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March 28 2001
Gaming Law Masters Forum April 5
William R. Kisby, vice president of gaming and e-commerce for the National Fraud Center, Inc., will be one of the featured panelists speaking at the Gaming Law Masters Forum April 5 at the International Gaming Institute on the University of Nevada Las Vegas campus.
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March 26 2001
Constitutionality of gaming regulations to be challenged by denied applicant
A San Francisco developer is vowing to mount a legal challenge to the constitutionality of Nevada's gaming regulations, following the Nevada Gaming Commission's unanimous decision to deny him a gaming license Thursday.
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March 26 2001
Governor asserts control over tribal gambling
An executive order issued late Tuesday by Gov. Gray Davis gives the state's new Gambling Control Commission the power to issue licenses for slot machines, effectively shifting the authority for regulating California's booming tribal gambling industry from the tribes to the state
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March 23 2001
FBI Agents Seize Casino Documents
The records at the Californian Cahuilla Creek gaming facility were taken amid allegations of theft.
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March 22 2001
Hill VS Online Gambling
With the increase of online casino sites, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va. have said they will reintroduce their online gambling legislation this Congress, albeit with possible adjustments to improve the chance of final passage after last year's legislation fell just short.
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March 21 2001
U.S. Judge Backs Visa, MasterCard in Internet Gambling Ruling
Visa, MasterCard and several banks that issue the cards have won an important federal legal case involving credit card debts arising from
Internet gambling. If a U.S. District Judge in New Orleans had ruled against them, the result could have been chaos in the already chilly relationship
between online casinos and the credit card companies and U.S. banks that issue the cards.
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March 19 2001
River City Group, CCA Release Annual I-Gaming Report
One of the Internet's top money making industries, e-gambling, continues to thrive.
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March 18, 2001
Former CEO used company loans to cover gambling debts
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - A former corporate executive accused of using company money and bank loans to cover more than $30 million in gambling losses has agreed to plead guilty to bank and wire fraud.
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March 17 2001
Online Casino Risk
The online casino industry is set to explode, but legal restrictions could keep U.S. firms out of the fray
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March 16 2001
donations to kill betting ban
The gambling industry lavished money on both political parties last year in a successful effort to block legislation that would ban betting on college sports.
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March 15 2001
WHAT'S INSIDE JAY COHEN'S BRIEFS?
It's been a year since World Sports Exchange President Jay Cohen was found guilty of violating the federal Interstate Wire Act, and his appeal process is well under way. Cohen was sentenced August 9 to spend 21 months in prison and fined $5,000, and his challenge began a few weeks lager. A brief for an appeal was filed November 1 and the government filed its response January 15. On Friday, attorney Mark Baker filed Cohen's final brief, the last necessary step before a hearing date is to be set.

March 14 2001
Gambling addicts ban themselves from casinos
Problem gamblers are one step away from having state help to keep them out of Atlantic City casinos. A new bill has been passed that would let gamblers put themselves on a list of people banned from casinos, a list that includes mostly mobsters and card-counters.
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March 10, 2001
Internet gambling bill introduced
By Erin Neff
LAS VEGAS SUN

CARSON CITY -- Saying Nevada should lead the way in the Internet gambling revolution, Assemblywoman Merle Berman introduced a bill Wednesday to allow state gaming regulators to govern interactive gaming.
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March 10 2001
Board OKs Tax Break for Harrah’s New Orleans
The Louisiana Gaming Control Board approved a new contract yesterday that will give a much-needed tax break to the struggling Harrah's New Orleans Casino, the state's only land casino.
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March 10 2001
Illinois House committee rejects gambling bill but accepts gambling money
The same Illinois House committee that rejected a bill to ban ATMs on riverboat casinos has a long record of accepting campaign donations from gambling interests. Critics argue that placing automated teller machines at casinos makes it too easy for people to gamble away money they cannot afford to lose. But the House Executive Committee rejected the restriction Wednesday.
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March 09 2001
Patent Case Shuts Down Online Casino
In a patent case that could affect how business is conducted on the Internet, a U.S. district judge has ordered an online casino in the Caribbean to stop offering wagering on live games of chance because the activity infringes on the intellectual property of a Nevada company, MSNBC learned Friday.

March 09 2001
Online Gambling Bill Introduced in Nevada
A bill that would legalize online gambling in Nevada was introduced yesterday in the State Assembly. AB 296, introduced by Assemblywoman Merle Berman, would authorize the Nevada Gaming Commission to set up regulations and grant Internet gambling licenses to resort hotels already holding unrestricted state gaming licenses. Revenue from interactive gaming would be taxed just as gross revenue received from other games. Although the law would require players to be of legal age and from jurisdictions where Internet gambling is legal, it would not require that Internet players be from Nevada.

March 08 2001
Georgia Senate Bans Video Poker
In a surprise move, the Georgia Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to ban video poker, giving a major victory to a freshman Republican from Northeast Georgia who had appeared to be waging an uphill battle against the industry.

March 08 2001
Look-alikes stopped from taking business
During the last week of February, a U.S. federal judge ordered a Costa Rican Internet sports book to surrender control of the domain names RioSports.com and BetRio.com. Rio International Interlink was ordered to hand over the domains to Rio Properties Inc., a subsidiary of Harrah's Entertainment Inc. In an attempt to curb the practice of registering sound-alike domains, the U.S Congress has passed legislation. The Domain Name Piracy Prevention Act of 1999 prohibits "the bad-faith registration, trafficking or use of Internet domain names that are identical to, confusingly similar to, or dilative of distinctive trademarks or service marks."

March 07 2001
TECHNOLOGY -- An Open Door for Online Crooks?
TECHNOLOGY
By Geoffrey Smith in Boston

The law is usually able to distinguish clearly between legal investments and those that constitute fraud. But the Internet is blurring lines most of us assume are easily drawn when federal prosecutors try to protect us from crooks. And that's making it increasingly difficult for authorities to keep up with a new generation of cyber thieves.

March 07 2001
Canada Addresses Money Laundering Late In Game
The Canadian government certainly isn't the first to address money laundering, in fact, it is one of the last, but recently published regulations have many commerce experts feeling that Canada may have written some of the best such regulations around.

March 07 2001
Guilty plea is expected by offshore betting baron
Frank Masterana, owner and founder of Caribbean Sports in Costa Rica, will appear before U.S. District Judge John T. Elfvin on Wednesday and plead guilty to gambling charges.

March 03 2001
At the Nasdaq Casino, the Winners Get Stiffed
Competition between stock markets turned into anarchy for a time this week, as electronic systems went crazy and the regulators at Nasdaq slept. Hours later, the Nasdaq bosses sprang to life and made decisions that cost some traders lots of money but helped the very person whose error started the mess.

March 03 2001
Casino Sports Assists in arresting Individual for Credit Card Fraud!
The Baltimore Police Department arrested a man who hacked into the database of a Maryland Based Internet company.  It took one week to apprehend the said individual, but this was with the assistance of the Casino Sports Credit Card Fraud Department Supervisor. 

The individual opened accounts at a given sportsbook with legitimate names and accurate personal information.  When the investigators realized that the offshore industry was being defrauded, they notified Casino Sports and asked for specific information relating to the location, IP address and time of access to the accounts.  He was traced to a public library and after extensive research and surveillance; the said individual is in custody and will be prosecuted to the fullest extent.  A number of offshore sportsbooks were hit by this activity.  For any sportsbooks that may have been scammed by Maryland Credit Cards, you may contact, Detective Mark A. Watkins #3132 Baltimore County Police Department, Woodland Precinct, Investigative Services Team, 6424 Windsor Mill Rd., Baltimore Maryland  21202.  Office 410-887-6812, Precinct 410-887-1340.  

March 03 2001
Federal Official Undecided on Gambling Compact Negotiations
Interior Secretary Gale Norton told a Senate panel that she needs more time to determine what role if any she should play when gambling compact negotiations stall between tribes and states.

March 01 2001
Missouri Senate Proposal Would Split State Gaming Commission
A plan to split the Missouri Gaming Commission into two agencies has been introduced in the Missouri Senate. The measure would also create the crime of "gaming corruption," would cap the number of Missouri casinos at 15 and would limit each riverboat to no more than 3,500 slot machines.