| 2 Arrests In Illegal Gambling Operation | | Posted Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:58:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | A South Florida husband and wife, allegedly caught running an illegal gambling operation, have been arrested.Yoel and Maryorie Navarro were arrested Thursday and charged with Keeping a Gambling House, which is a third degree felony.Investigators from the Organized Crime Section of the Miami-Dade Police Department say the illegal gambling operation was being run out of the MGN Palace, located at 10734 NW 58th Street.OCS detectives were tipped off by concerned citizens and conducted multiple undercover operations where they discovered the gaming machines would give credits for winnings. Those credits, in turn, would be converted to gift cards.Detectives seized 51 gaming machines, more than $1,000 dollars in illegal gambling proceeds and 37 gift cards worth $20 dollars each. .... | |
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| | | Sheriff set to close gambling centers | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:59:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Hidden behind black reflective glass and crowned by a yellow sign announcing it as the Hot Spot, the small business in a strip mall on the corner of Perry Hill Road and Atlanta Highway has a fairly simple layout. Thirty-two LCD monitors line two walls and one center aisle. On a dreary afternoon last week, 15 people spread out within the space's cramped confines, some smoking cigarettes, others tapping their fingers on the black countertop. Everyone stared at the screens flashing before them. Wheel of Riches, Smokin' 7, Super Keno and Three Lil Piggy Banks flashed neon reflections onto players' faces. Players use pre-paid cards to buy time on the Internet, where they can sign on to a central site that offers eight different games to bet on. It's not serious gambling, some said, just a way to kill time on a lunch break or after work.... | |
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| | | Concerns Raised over Online Gambling and Money Laundering | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:05:33 AM by Blog57 Team | | London (CNSNews.com) - As betters here continue to wager heavily on Tuesday's midterm elections in the U.S., a report commissioned by the British government has warned that online gambling could facilitate international money laundering operations.Not only could criminals use them as fronts to cleanse illicit funds by paying them out as winnings, but legitimate sites could also be hijacked by criminals - who would use their online accounts as places to temporarily stash ill-gotten gains, it said.The report, commissioned by the government and compiled by RSe Consulting of London, warned that a money-laundering "arms race" could develop between criminals and law enforcement agencies over online betting sites, with each side developing more and more sophisticated ways to hide and trace dirty money.... | |
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| | | U.K. Urges Nations to Back Principles on Web Gambling (Update2) | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 11:02:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell next week will urge 32 nations to back a code of principles on internet gambling, the first major international measure to regulate the industry as the U.S. imposes a ban. Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, South Africa and other nations on Oct. 31 will meet outside London for talks hosted by Jowell. The nations will attempt to agree on a code of conduct for companies that offer gambling over the web. A draft of the agreement seen by Bloomberg News today indicates the nations may commit to the idea that ``remote gambling should not be a source of crime'' and that it ``should be fair to the consumer and that the protection of children and vulnerable people should be a key objective.'' The measures are Britain's attempt to regulate internet gambling instead of criminalizing it as U.S.... | |
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| | | Upstate track set to open N.Y.'s 8th video gambling operation | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 6:55:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | VERNON, N.Y. An upstate harness racing track is set to become the next New York track to offer video gambling machines. The long-suffering Vernon Downs in central New York's Oneida County is scheduled to open its video gambling facility on October 26th. The track's owners hope it will bring in (m) millions of dollars in revenues, just like similar operations have done at seven other "racinos" across New York state. The newest video-gambling emporium opened last week at Yonkers Raceway. Last summer, video gambling machines were unveiled at the newly reopened Tioga Downs, outside Binghamton. In Saratoga Springs, the city's racinos has been so popular that the facility is undergoing a multi-(m)-million-dollar expansion that will add 500 gambling machines to the 12-hundred already in operation.... | |
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| | | Higher-education board staff helped write gambling issue | | Posted Sunday, October 08, 2006 2:58:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | Contrary to public statements, Ohio Board of Regents staffers helped gambling proponents write the Learn and Earn scholarship portion of a proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot, staff e-mails show. Beginning in early December 2005, staff members were drafting language to make the scholarships part of the Ohio constitution, according to the e-mails obtained by The Dispatch. At the same time, gambling proponents were writing ballot wording for State Issue 3 to allow slot-machine gambling in Ohio and to allocate some of the profits for college scholarships. The nine regents, who are appointed by the governor, oversee higher education. Their staff members helped with the scholarship language at the request of former regent N. Victor Goodman, a Columbus lawyer working with the gambling proponents.... | |
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| | | Clergy opposing gambling plan | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 2:56:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | COLUMBUS - A broad coalition of Christian clergy said Wednesday they will push parishioners to oppose a proposal to expand gambling in Ohio by displaying yard signs, campaigning door-to-door and preaching against the measure from their pulpits. The announcement at a Statehouse news conference marked a moment of rare cooperation on a political issue between Ohio's mainstream and conservative religious communities, which have differed in their approaches in the divisive governor's race between Democrat Ted Strickland and Republican Ken Blackwell. But both groups sent powerful religious leaders - United Methodist Bishop Bruce Ough and evangelical pastor Rod Parsley of World Harvest Church - to express their unity against the ballot initiative, called Learn and Earn by backers. Ough, who represents the Methodist church's West Ohio Conference, equated the supporters' strategy of highlighting the college scholarships provided by the proposal, rather than the gambling it would allow, to a game of hide and seek.... | |
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| | | Internet Gambling Bill appears dead in the water | | Posted Wednesday, September 27, 2006 12:56:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | Before reading today's column, please remember the key word here is "appears," and news on this issue can change in a New York minute. Looks like people are saying now that the DoD Authorization is "dead in the water" for the time being, partially due to Hastert's insistence on attaching those two measures (court security and the immigration enforcement measure), partially due to an ongoing stalemate on the prayer provision, partially due to scheduling pressures, and partially due to some other lingering differences between House and Senate negotiators. Apparently Chairman Hunter (from the House) is under some pressure from his own committee members to drop his insistence on the prayer language and move the bill, but he has not yet relented. He has, however, apparently caved at least to a degree regarding non germane add-ons.... | |
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| | | Democrats make push for Riley gambling ad on the Web | | Posted Saturday, September 02, 2006 9:02:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | MONTGOMERY -- The Alabama Democratic Party has launched a Web site to raise $450,000 for a television ad campaign that would attempt to link Republican Gov. Bob Riley to convicted lobbyists Michael Scanlon and Jack Abramoff and to Mississippi Choctaw gambling money. The site -- www.askbobriley.com -- is billed as "The official Web site for questions our governor won't answer." And it spawned a back-and-forth Friday that suggests gambling will continue to be a contentious issue as Democratic Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley attempts to block Riley's attempt for a second term. Riley, who often espouses his opposition to gambling, has steadfastly denied receiving any campaign contributions, directly or indirectly, from the Mississippi gambling interests that Scanlon and Abramoff represented before they were convicted on federal corruption charges.... | |
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| | | Gambling on Recovery | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:01:32 AM by Blog57 Team | | For casino operators and investors who envision converting the Mississippi Gulf Coast into a gambling-resort destination that will rival Las Vegas and Atlantic City, the effort won't come cheap. The costs of doing business here have gone from reasonable to sky high after last year's hurricanes. Meng Chai, project manager for the $500 million Bacaran Bay Casino Resort that Biloxi-based Torguson Gaming Group Inc. is building, said he was seeing cost increases across the board: Steel, concrete and cement up 20 percent to 25 percent. Copper 40 percent to 50 percent higher. Glass and glazing up 20 percent to 25 percent. Same for drywall and metal-stud framing. "A $100 million construction project before Katrina would now cost about $120 million," said Chai, who works for Roy Anderson Corp., a construction company based in Gulfport, Miss.... | |
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