Counselors and clinicians are calling for a regulatory crackdown on gambling amid a dramatic spike in gambling addiction among young…
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A Connecticut man was arrested on Monday for allegedly running an underground gambling house called “the Club Hou$e.”
The program includes treatment, drug testing and financial and location monitoring and could potentially divert 30 to 50 defendants at any given time.
The United Kingdom and other jurisdictions have stepped up online gambling enforcement, but the U.S. hasn’t added more watchful eyes to the industry yet.
The youngest gamblers need help, but that awareness has yet to materialize into widespread gambling prevention programs for youth.
A legal opinion from the U.S. Department of Justice could threaten the viability of online gambling that crosses state lines such as poker. The opinion interprets the federal Wire Act, which prohibits interstate wagering, to apply to any form of gambling that crosses state lines, not just sports betting.
By a 6-to-3 vote, the high court Monday voided the 1992 Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA). The law barred state-authorized sports gambling with some exceptions. Thirty-two states may move to offer sports betting.
Sports bettors in many states risk prosecution even when their wagers are placed on offshore sites—a legacy of anti-gambling laws created during the pre-internet era. A New York attorney writes it’s time to test the validity of those laws, even if it challenges a lucrative source of state revenue.
Reuters say says websites based in Europe that purport to sell such items as maps and flags are part of a multinational system to disguise payments for the $40 billion global online gambling industry.
In 2007, retiring Philadelphia federal organized crime prosecutor Barry Gross declared, “We defeated the mob.” Did yesterday’s sweeping indictment against…