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Professional Poker Player Cory Zeidman, former WSOP bracelet winner, arrested on charges of fraud, money laundering related to $25 million sports betting scheme
A professional poker player was arrested Wednesday on charges of fraud and money laundering related to a sports betting scheme that broug...
Investigation into Illegal Casinos Leads to Indictments Alleging Gambling Dens, Bribery, Extortion Scheme and Drug Trafficking in California
Press Release from United States Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California
SANTA ANA, Cali...
Macau: New Gaming Bill removes lawyer-client confidentiality to uncover junket activities
The President of the Macau Lawyers Association (AAM), Jorge Neto Valente, continued to warn against the possible powers granted to author...
South Africa: The process of appointing a new chair of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) may start from scratch
The process of appointing a new chair of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC) may start from scratch after Parliament referred the mat...
UK National Lottery could be SUSPENDED for the first time in its 30-year history
A fight over who gets to run the National Lottery could see it suspended for the first time.
The licence to oversee the game was given t...
Federal lawsuit challenges sports betting rule that gives exclusivity to Tribal interests
Debbie Nelson's favorite slot machine at the Nisqually Red Wind Casino is Yogi Bear-themed, complete with spinning picnic baskets and huc...
Lawyers for Camelot warn brewing legal battle could hit 'hundreds of thousands' of good causes funded by National Lottery
Good cause?: Lawyers for Camelot said the Gambling Commission is asking the court to 'take a gamble' on the case
Lawyers for Camelot hav...
Kansas legalizes sports betting, then gets sued by casino
Kansas legalized sports betting Thursday, only to be sued almost immediately by the operator of a state-owned casino that could offer the...
U.K. Regulator asks court to enforce Allwyn licence award of UK National Lottery License (2)
U.K. regulator will ask court to enforce Allwyn licence award of UK National Lottery License
Critics say Gambling Commission’s move in l...
National lottery: regulator will ask court to enforce Allwyn licence award
The former Camelot chief executive Dame Dianne Thompson wrote to the commission last weekend warning it to abandon its attempt to move fo...
Camelot Disputes Award of UK National Lottery
Camelot Disputes Award of UK National Lottery
Legal row over the National Lottery 'could cost £1billion in funds set aside for good caus...
5 US States Issue Emergency Orders to Shut Down Metaverse Casino with Alleged Russian Ties
A multi-state cease-and-desist letter issued Wednesday calls the Flamingo Casino Club “simply a high-tech scam
Regulators in five U.S. s...
U.K. Regulator asks court to enforce Allwyn licence award of UK National Lottery License
U.K. regulator will ask court to enforce Allwyn licence award of UK National Lottery License
Critics say Gambling Commission’s move in l...
With few laws and no governing body, gambling in Alabama is spreading like wildfire. Even if most people don’t realize it.
The video would barely warrant a second glance in most other states. After all, it simply shows a person playing an online gambling game ...
Fate of National Lottery in legal showdown this week as Camelot fights to hold on to 28-year licence that billionaire Czech tycoon's company is poised to take
Fate of National Lottery in legal showdown this week as Camelot fights to hold on to 28-year licence that billionaire Czech tycoon's comp...
Harness trainer Ross Cohen admits to fixing between five and 20 races in New York by bribing drivers
Day 2 of Lisa Giannelli’s horse-doping trial in a New York courtroom began Thursday (April 28) with opening statements and ended with tes...
IGT Also Sues UK Gambling Commission Over Partner Camelot’s Failed Lottery Bid
April 25, 2022,
IGT is the latest litigant hoping to overturn the UK Gambling Commission’s decision to award Britain’s £80 billion (US$1...
Late B.C. lottery winner's family headed to court over $3-million jackpot
Two family members are heading to B.C. Supreme Court to get what they consider to be their share of their deceased mother’s $3-million lo...
UK Camelot Denied Fast-Track Trial Against UKGB
In a court defeat on Tuesday, the operator of the United Kingdom’s National Lottery Camelot was denied its plea to have legal proceedings...
Texas and Alabama Securities Regulators File Enforcement Actions Against Online Casino Developer Selling NFTs to Operate Casinos in a Metaverse
In Short
The Situation: State securities regulators in Texas and Alabama filed two first-of-their kind enforcement actions against a...
Metaverse, Crypto Currencies, and iGaming: A story of new business models, explosive growth, and fraud
Metaverse, Crypto Currencies, and iGaming: A story of new business models, explosive growth, and fraud
What Happens in The Metaverse Do...
Protestations and Issues surrounding the award of the license to operate the UK National Lottery
Protestations and Issues surrounding the award of the license to operate the UK National Lottery
UK National lottery: Richard Desmon...
American Gaming Association Urges Department of Justice to Crack Down on Illegal Gambling
Washington, D.C. – The American Gaming Association (AGA) called on the U.S. Department of Justice to crack down on illegal, online sports...
U.S. State Regulators Aim to Shutter NFT Casino
Regulators in Alabama and Texas have ordered Sand Vegas Casino Club to close its virtual doors.
State securities regulators in Alabama...
Italian lottery operator Sisal mulls joining Camelot’s High Court challenge
Italian lottery operator Sisal is considering teaming up with Camelot to challenge the Gambling Commission’s decision to pick Czech firm ...
Northern & Shell joins Camelot in taking legal action over National Lottery
Group owned by businessman Richard Desmond files procurement challenge against Gambling Commission
Richard Desmond’s Northern & Shel...
The wait for legal sports betting in Florida continues
One side makes argument to be heard in appeals court as case surrounding tribal-state compact drags on
The wait for legal sports betting...
Eddie Tipton, who defrauded lotteries in six states, blows his parole opportunity
In 2017, he plead guilty to conspiring to collect cash from lotteries in six different states in the central U.S. Amazingly he was set to...
Las Vegas Sands ends effort to put casino expansion on Florida ballot
Florida Voters in Charge, the nonprofit political action committee funded by Las Vegas Sands Corp. to gather signatures on petitions supp...
With North Florida casino drive over, Seminole Tribe stays in control
The committee withdrew its last-ditch lawsuit on Friday.
With the collapse last week of the most recent effort to broaden casino gamblin...