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Analysts say online gambling law a bad ideaNews Story
'Moral crusade ... is wrong for about 1,000 reasons' Yesterday, the Department of Justice [DOJ] announced charges against 11 individuals and four companies accused of taking sports bets from U.S. residents in the $12 billion a year online gambling industry. The charges focused on the persons and companies that supported BetonSports PLC, a U.K. incorporated, publicly traded company and popular Internet sportsbook that claims to have 1.2 million registered users. The view of the DOJ is a
Jul 19, 2006, 8:36 am - Lottery News

Gambling industry adjusting after CEO arrestNews Story
Next week's big online gambling conference in Las Vegas may turn out to be a washout as a number of individuals invited are thinking of cancelling their trip in the wake of the indictments of senior directors at BetonSports. The annual conference, organised by Bodog.com, is a must-go event for industry executives, but the arrest of the BetonSports chief executive David Carruthers on entry to the US has made people think twice about attending. Bodog.com's chief executive, the Canadian maver
Jul 19, 2006, 8:07 am - Lottery News

Dallas arrest sparks fears of internet gambling crackdownNews Story
Analysts say timing of arrest may be designed to influence legislative process The internet gambling industry was in disarray last night after the Scottish chief executive of BetOnSports, the Costa Rica-based operator, was arrested by the US federal authorities at Dallas Fort Worth airport. In a brief hearing at a federal district court in Fort Worth, Texas, prosecutors said that David Carruthers and several others were charged with conspiracy to offer bets on professional and college spor
Jul 18, 2006, 8:14 am - Lottery News

Arrest Made in Crackdown on Internet BettingNews Story
In a sharp escalation of their crackdown on Internet gambling, United States prosecutors said yesterday that they were pressing charges against the chief executive of BetOnSports, a prominent Internet gambling company that is publicly traded in Britain, and against several other current and former company officers. Federal authorities arrested the chief executive, David Carruthers, late Sunday as he was on layover at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on his way from Britain to Costa Ric
Jul 18, 2006, 7:37 am - Lottery News

N.M. Lottery official resigns after leaving DWI accident sceneNews Story
The vice chairman of the New Mexico Lottery Authority board of directors has turned in a letter of resignation to Gov. Bill Richardson, days after he was arrested in a bizarre drunk-driving crash. New Mexico Lottery Authority Vice Chairman Cody Kelley is accused of rolling his pickup truck while drunk and then walking away with his injured passenger to a nearby bar. The incident occurred during the Fourth of July weekend when witnesses said a pickup truck southbound on Pan American NE spun
Jul 10, 2006, 7:38 am - Lottery News

N.Y. store clerk busted in Lotto scamNews Story
A man who bought a Lotto ticket worth $1 million at a Huntington Station store was almost swindled out of his winnings by the clerk, State Police said. Carlos Canas bought the $1 million Lotto Luck scratch-off ticket at Huntington Beverage, 1687 New York Ave., on June 7 and immediately knew he had won. Wanting to verify his winnings and get information on how to claim the prize, police said Canas handed the ticket to the clerk, Mohinder K. Misri. Misri allegedly scanned the ticket, tore
Jun 26, 2006, 1:18 pm - Lottery News

Winning lottery ticket led police to murder suspectNews Story
A winning Texas lottery ticket has put police on the trail of the suspect in a DeKalb County, Georgia, murder. Police had been searching for Kelsey Ruth since the murder of his ex-girlfriend, 27-year old Tai Morgan, in her home on Canary Court on Tuesday. DeKalb Police suspected Ruth fled to his home state of Texas so they sent wanted posters to television stations there. At the same time those wanted posters with Ruth's picture and a shot of his car went out his mother was winning $3.4
Jun 15, 2006, 1:15 pm - Lottery News

Lottery company used 'sucker lists' to target elderlyNews Story
The New York Attorney General's office has secured $110,000 in restitution and civil penalties from three Erie County individuals who targeted senior citizens through a telemarketing scam involving the sale of winning lottery numbers. Michael J. Geiger and Michael D. Marranca, the owners of Multi-Plays of America, Inc. and the company's general manager, Noelle M. Alessandra, all consented to the court order that permanently bars them from telemarketing to consumers or for charitable purpose
Jun 9, 2006, 7:51 am - Lottery News

Lottery scammer arrested in OhioNews Story
Patience paid off last week as police nabbed a man they believe used the guise of lottery winnings to scam people out of thousands of dollars. Issa Rashid Maganga, 35, is being held in the Stark County Jail on three felony charges, while the FBI, U.S. Postal Service and Immigration Naturalization Service look into his activities. Police arrested Maganga on May 24 after he retrieved two packages from a post office box at the UPS Store at 1937 E. Maple St. Maganga tossed away the packages an
May 31, 2006, 11:12 am - Lottery News

565 lottery scammers arrested in global operationNews Story
Massive 14-month investigation spans the globe and brings more than 500 fraudsters to justice More than 2.8 million people in the U.S. paid to obtain credit cards, claim sweepstakes winnings and get in on lucrative investments that turned out to be too good to be true, officials said Tuesday as they announced hundreds of arrests in an international investigation. Authorities in five countries have arrested 565 people in fraud schemes that netted more than $1 billion. Many of those arreste
May 23, 2006, 6:41 pm - Lottery News