A federal court in Boston has found a local businessman reputed to have organised crime connections guilty of sports betting and loan shark ring racketeering that includes unspecified online gambling operations.
Arthur Gianelli (51) kept meticulous records for his sprawling business activities, reports the Boston Globe, and this led to his ultimate downfall after wire taps [...]

The chairman of the Poker Players Association, former Senator Alphonse D’Amato, told Associated Press this week that the pressure group has a lobbying budget of $3 million that it will devote to overturning the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, or deploy to at the very least carve out an exemption that would legalise and regulate [...]

Kudos to Simon Collins, a director of the online gambling company Cashcade, who this week did something constructive on perceptions of the industry in an op-ed article for The Independent newspaper in the UK.
In the piece, Collins pays tribute to the online gambling regulatory framework set up by the UK government, which he says many [...]

Internet gambling opponents who use the argument that Internet gambling is especially addictive had a setback this week with the release of news from a recent Harvard study.
The respected daily college newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, reported that the study was conducted by the Harvard Medical School Division on Addictions and suggests that the widespread availability [...]