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Feds in Calif. bust international gambling ring
U.S. authorities unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging 18 people with involvement in an illegal gambling ring they say spanned from California to Peru and used violence against customers with outstanding debts. The defendants operated an illegal Internet and telephone sports betting business involving millions of dollars, the U.S. attorney's office ...
Feds in US bust international gambling ring
U.S. authorities unsealed an indictment Wednesday charging 18 people with involvement in an illegal gambling ring they say spanned from California to Peru and used violence against customers with outstanding debts. The defendants operated an illegal Internet and telephone sports betting business involving millions of dollars, the U.S. attorney's office ...
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___ NSA director says plot against Wall Street foiled WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. foiled a plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange because of the sweeping surveillance programs at the heart of a debate over national security and personal privacy, officials said Tuesday at a rare open hearing ...
MGM, AEG to develop 20K seat Las Vegas Strip arena
Years of talk about building an arena capable of hosting professional sports and big-name concerts yielded an announcement Tuesday that casino giant MGM Resorts International and entertainment company AEG will build a privately financed 20,000-seat indoor venue on the Las Vegas Strip. Construction on the $350 million arena should start ...
SW Ohio attorney with gambling problem suspended
A Cincinnati attorney who has acknowledged a longtime gambling problem was suspended from practicing law by the Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday. The court said in a 7-0 ruling that Thomas Leksan could seek reinstatement in two years under conditions including completion of a recovery contract with the Ohio Lawyers ...
Former Miami officer sentenced for taking bribes
A former Miami police officer has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for taking bribes to protect an illegal Liberty City gambling parlor. While sentencing 42-year-old Nathaniel Dauphin on Wednesday, a federal judge said his cooperation with an FBI investigation of police corruption surrounding the gambling operation was "admirable." ...
Some Colo. gambling, pot license files destroyed
Colorado officials say a hardware failure has destroyed certain computer files regarding gambling and medical marijuana industry licenses. The files couldn't be recovered from a back-up system either. The Governor's Office of Information Technology and the Department of Revenue said Friday that licensees' authorization to do business won't be affected, ...
AP top news in Iowa at 3:58 p.m. CDT
Iowa gov. may need to OK Medicaid abortion funding DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Catholic, anti-abortion Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad could soon find himself in an uncomfortable position: He may have to sign off on payments for every Medicaid-funded abortion in his state. A bill requiring that authorization is sitting ...
Chinese taste for baccarat drives Macau boom
In the nearly three dozen casinos in Macau, the world's biggest gambling market, there's only one game that matters: baccarat. Almost all of Macau's $38 billion in gambling revenue last year — six times more than the Las Vegas Strip — came from card game, much of it from Chinese ...
Bill to legalize web poker introduced in Congress
Gamblers who prefer their laptops to blackjack tables could soon get a boost from Washington. Republican New York Congressman Peter King proposed federal regulations Thursday that would rescue online gambling from the legal gray zone where it currently languishes. The federal government cracked down on online poker in 2011. But ...
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