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U.S. Authorities Bring Online Gambling Charges Against Dozens

An AP newswire article, via The Globe and Mail, reports that:

Criminal charges have been brought against more than two dozen individuals and corporations in four states in connection with a billion-dollar-a-year gambling Web site, authorities said Wednesday.

Authorities declined to name any of those charged. One of the corporations is an offshore Internet company with an American counterpart, said Kevin Ryan, a spokesman for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

Ryan said the case is “one of the first times that a Web designer corporation and the companies that maintain the Web sites have been charged.”

Police said the arrests were made in New York, New Jersey, Florida and Nevada. The scheme involved placing sports bets through bookies via a secure Internet site.

posted by Fergie @ 11/15/2006 10:32:00 AM