Sentences with phrase «by illegal gambling»

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Running illegal gambling operations, including recruiting people for foreign gaming junkets, was their main business, according to previously unreported court documents in China obtained by Bloomberg Markets as well as interviews with family members and former business partners.

(Reuters)-- Texas reached a deal with fantasy sports firm FanDuel by which it will halt paid operations on May 2, the state's top prosecutor said on Friday, two months after saying such online operations are illegal gambling.

The two largest daily fantasy sports companies, FanDuel Inc. and DraftKings Inc., are in early - stage talks to merge, people familiar with the matter said on Monday, as the industry faces a crackdown by U.S. states over whether it runs illegal gambling.

When the craze for poker kicked into high gear, a number of police departments responded by deploying SWAT teams to raid games in garages, basements and VFW halls where illegal gambling was suspected.

And that group is not being replaced by millennials who, if they do gamble, are attracted to claims of bigger and faster payoffs at more upscale casinos or through illegal off - shore internet sites they can access on their phones.

Assemblyman J. Gary Pretlow, who chairs the Committee on Racing and Wagering, says the approach state lawmakers take will depend on the outcome of the lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman to block FanDuel and DraftKings from conducting what Schneiderman considers illegal gambling.

Schneiderman says daily fantasy sports are not licensed by the state which means they're engaged in illegal gambling.

Off the top of my head the biggest ones are: (1) corruption within the Buildings & Grounds Department (2) corruption involving school district vendors over-billing and paying bribes and kickbacks that led to those two Federal indictments and convictions; (3) corruption involving police harassment of a woman on behalf of the manager of a local beach club; (4) a child rapist operating out of a public middle school; (5) an illegal gambling and pornography web site operated by members of the New Rochelle Police Department; (6) a retired police officer defrauding charities including St. Jude's Children's Research; (7) illegal asbestos handling and asbestos removal at an elementary school; (8) an effort to artificially inflate the salaries and pensions of senior police commanders; (9) the relationship between the New Rochelle Police Commissioner and a corrupt contractor, a man who has since been convicted on Federal corruption charges; (10) the sordid history of former New Rochelle Schools Administrator Freddie Dean Smith.

FanDuel and DraftKings fantasy sports sites have been ordered to cease operations in New York State by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who announced that daily fantasy sports gameplay is equal to illegal gambling.

«Although the information offered by interviewees in this respect may not be completely reliable, 21.4 % stated that they had not registered on any gambling website recently, which suggests that illegal websites continue to be in operation.»

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It's a sharp, teasing setup for a tale of even higher stakes and steeper falls from grace, set in motion by an early scene of Molly being arrested by the FBI for her alleged involvement in an illegal gambling racket.

Online gambling, despite being a massive $ 28 billion business by one 2008 estimate, is entirely illegal.

Rigby and Douglas are the first people being prosecuted by their government for illegal videogame gambling.

Although gambling is illegal in Japan, pachinko is openly practiced in large commercial facilities enabled by a series of loopholes.

Right now, online gambling is technically illegal in the United States — a ban was put in place by Congress in 2006.

As if the facts above weren't great enough for a contracts exam question, the case is further complicated by the fact that (a) brother Troy, not Bakaysa, bought the winning ticket, and (b) Connecticut law makes gambling contracts illegal (which led the lower court to dismiss Sokaitis» lawsuit seeking her share).

Katz had been convicted on a multiple count Indictment of transmitting illegal gambling wagers by telephone from Los Angeles to Miami and Boston in violation of a federal statute.

About three months ago there was a post on Slaw about a decision by a court in Kentucky to seize over 100 domain names used by Internet gambling enterprises, on the grounds that the domain names were illegal gaming devices.

Nevertheless, it is generally recognised in Hong Kong that these barriers are necessary, as by all accounts there is a great deal of illegal money flowing from Mainland China, much of which has been seen going through the gambling establishments in Macau and to an extent, which can not be quantified in Hong Kong too.

The specifics are oft - debated, but it remains the case that online gambling is illegal in the U.S. Or, at least, the acceptance by an online gambling site of any feasible alternative for funding the account of a U.S. - based customer is illegal.

* It is still illegal for anyone to wear armour to Parliament, (Royal Prerogative 1279) * Hanging washing in the street, beating a carpet and flying a kite are set out in the Town Police Clauses Act, 1847, (chapter 89, section 28) as punishable by a # 1,000 fine * The Licensing Act of 1872 states that it is illegal to be drunk in charge of a cow, horse or steam engine * You can't fire a cannon close to a dwelling house (Metropolitan Police Act 1839) * You can't bet or gamble in the library reading room (Library Offences Act 1898) * You can't use any slide upon ice or snow (Town Police Clauses Act 1847) * You can't drive cattle through the streets of London (Metropolitan Streets Act 1867)

The accused, Santiago Wong, was charged with maintaining an illegal gambling operation, based on surveillance footage from a camera placed in his hotel room by police without prior judicial authorization.

The majority's decision in this regard was influenced by the behaviour of the accused himself, who had promoted the illegal gambling operation to strangers and effectively invited the public into his hotel room.