Sentences with phrase «on illegal gambling»

The Netherlands Gaming Authority will probe into the so - called loot boxes in video games and their relation to gambling as part of its crackdown on illegal gambling and the potential participation of children in gambling activities.

Not only will it create jobs and bring in much needed revenue without raising taxes but it will also deal a major blow to organized crime which has a stranglehold on the illegal gambling industry with an estimated $ 380 billion wagered annually.

Not exact matches

CNBC Investigates: Illegal gambling where fortunes are on the line and lives hang in the balance.

The general consensus is this is some form of gambling, and let's face it, on the books in New York, it is still illegal.»

What matters is whether this is illegal gambling under New York law, and New York law is crystal clear that in order to be gambling, you must have someone that bets on a contest of chance where the person betting does not have «control or influence» over the outcome.

(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.

Scams are illegal, but gambling on investments you don't understand is not.

Even disclosures about potential violations of gaming license and concession rules in Las Vegas, Massachusetts, and Macau are more focused on things like illegal gambling, money laundering, and debt collection rather than sexual misconduct.

According to Netzer, «criticism of legal gambling smacks of nannying ordinary working and retired folks: We the affluent, who would not dream of playing numbers whether legal or illegal, long shots on the races or for jackpots at slot machines, don't want you, the unwashed, to enjoy your simple pleasures.»

People in Alabama have a general interest in almost all sports - the state is second only to Nevada in the amount of money that its citizens bet on sports, despite the fact that in Alabama, unlike Nevada, sports gambling is illegal.»

Although the policy game is a major source of illegal gambling profit, betting on sports is, perhaps, the largest in revenue and public interest.

On most campuses illegal sports gambling is seldom further than a conversation away.

Betting on most sports is illegal in all states except Nevada, and baseball rules bar players from either illicit gambling or associating with gamblers.

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.

FanDuel and DraftKings are putting on hold their fight with Schneiderman — who has called daily fantasy sports illegal gambling and is trying to shut them down — until after lawmakers close the 2016 legislative session.

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.

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.

Members operated a casino - style gambling club in Yonkers with illegal poker machines that held dice tournaments and took bets on horse races, and on March 7, 2011, Mark «Stymie» Maiuzzo and others torched a car they thought belonged to the bookmaker of a nearby gambling club to decrease business there and intimidate the bookmaker, the feds said.

Representatives from FanDuel, DraftKings and other fantasy sports companies met with lawmakers on Wednesday to discuss the new rules, which resolved concerns that fantasy sports games amounted to illegal gambling.

Speaking to Susan Arbetter on Wednesday's The Capitol Pressroom, Schneiderman said both companies are engaged in illegal gambling.

De Blasio's department heads were then left behind to answer questions from residents on topics ranging from illegal gambling to affordable housing.

«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.»

Hold on, isn't internet gambling illegal in the USA.

And now, my local readers, there is Democrat - blue Maryland, where ballot issues on gambling and illegal immigrants are duking it out over the almighty dollar.

We may, but are not required to, decline a transaction on your Account for any of the following reasons: (A) because of operational considerations, (B) because your Account is in default, (C) if we suspect fraudulent or unlawful activity, (D) we reasonably believe a transaction may be challenged as illegal under state or federal law (such as casino gambling on the Internet), or (E) in our discretion, for any other reason.

Let derivative transactions go on where here is real hedging taking place; away from that, such transactions are gambling, and should be illegal.

Beginning at the Prohibition - themed River City Saloon, the journey continues to the famed Delta King riverboat, which used to be known as the floating hotspot for illegal drinking and gambling (and now permanently docked on the river in Old Sacramento).

The Ministry of Culture carried out a random check on 200 game operators recently and found that 36 of them were operating games with illegal content such as pornography and gambling as well as including contents abetting to crimes and «offending social morality».

Whilst gambling is technically illegal in China, social casino games do have quite a large market there, are popular, and have no issue being on app stores.

• Hong Kong is your ultimate playground: Enter illegal street races, gamble on cock fights, or kick back with some karaoke.

Hot on the heels of the Netherlands declaring loot boxes are gambling and therefore illegal, Belgium has had its say.

Hong Kong is your playground: Enter illegal races, gamble on cock fights, or kick back with some karaoke.

I wanted to reference this situation I saw: the owner of my old studio, on 125th Street and Lexington Avenue, was running an illegal gambling business behind the fake front of a candy store.

Gambling on Extinction is a powerful documentary that explores the complexities of the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, from the African sources to Asian markets.

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.

So how does a defendant charged with illegal gambling prove that his activities depend on skill?

As to if it is illegal gambling, that would depend on the law in the jurisdiction where it takes place: for an internet transaction this could be the jurisdiction of the website owner or the user or both.

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.

An example is Augur, a prediction market built on Ethereum yet online gambling is illegal in the U.S.

In February 2012, the US Attorney for the District of Maryland indicted Bodog, Calvin Ayre and three other individuals on charges of illegal gambling and money laundering conspiracy.