| | |  | Last Updated: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 |  | | | Online Gambling Newspaper Does Not Have Good News
- Tuesday, 10 Oct 2006
The Las Vegas Sun has published an article that summarizes the latest online gambling news – the banning bill, passing the Senate. The article emphasizes that the bill does not consider the online gambling players as criminals, but rather the institutions that provide such online gambling entertainment. Severe penalties await those banks and credit card companies that procedure the online gambling bets. The bill also allows federal and state regulations to close down online gambling businesses and sites that lead to them.
However, it is not quite clear how exactly the regulators, who will come up with the exact regulations only in 9 months from now, will follow these measures. The author of the gambling news article suggests that online casinos should raise a legal challenge on the bill. The odds that it will happen, however, are not too good. The gambling article also says that the US online gamblers should not act against the authorities in any way, as the FBI is ready to arrest gamblers as well as gambling executives, just like it happened in Nevada, for instance, where online gambling is illegal.
Online gambling expert and Whittier Law School professor I. Nelson Rose is quoted by the newspaper: "I don't think (Senate Majority Leader) Bill Frist cares at all about Internet gambling, but he rammed (the bill) through at the last minute. That's reprehensible, especially for 'Mr. Values.' One of the values of democracy is that people know what they are voting on." | |
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