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US House votes to kill Internet gamblingReply
BetonSports' CEO detained by US Feds The online gaming sector is reeling this morning after BetonSports CEO David Carruthers was seized by The Feds in the US, while waiting to transfer onto an aircraft destined for Costa Rica, where the company's customer services centre is based. Carruthers, an outspoken pro-gaming lobbyist, heads up a company that generates about 90% of its business from the US, where online gaming is considered illegal under the 1961 Wire Act. BetonSports is listed
Jul 17, 2006, 8:00 am - LOTTOMIKE - Lottery News

US House votes to kill Internet gamblingReply
I have been doing some hard thinking on the whys and wherefores of this issue. Hear me out on this. The credit card companies are already scared pea green over rising balances. The reason why families are coping with high gasoline prices is the fact that many are putting their gas on Visa/Mastercard and NOT paying off their charges. Online gambling is an extension of this fear. Gambling increases during hard times as families struggle to make ends meet. Many gamble on their credit ca
Jul 13, 2006, 2:12 pm - orangeman - Lottery News

Lottery headlines I'd like to seeReply
The Daily News All views are fit to print-Publisher/Proprietor: Mendacious Mucs Lottery Officials Probed Hero hacker exposes nationwide lottery corruption (Wash, DC--Jul 13, 2009) In an ever widening federal probe, lottery officials in 15 states are facing federal corruption charges stemming from the manipulation of state computers to favor outcomes in which they had a vested interest. The scheme was discovered when a hitherto little known hacker, using tools
Jul 12, 2006, 9:05 pm - Fibonacci - Lottery Discussion Forum

Is it legal...Reply
Quote: Originally posted by mylollipop on May 13, 2006 Quote: Originally posted by Rip Snorter on May 13, 2006 Quote: Originally posted by CalifDude on May 13, 2006 Quote: Originally posted by pumpi76 on May 13, 2006 guys is it legal to create a lotto better than the state lottery?I think is against the law to create a private lottery. What you think. I will apreciate the opinions. pumpi76 Lotteries are illegal by Federal law. States to have a lottery have to amend their own constitutio
May 13, 2006, 7:29 pm - Rip Snorter - Lottery Discussion Forum

Iowa Gov. Approves Ban On TouchPlay Lottery MachinesNews Story
The fight to keep video lottery in Iowa is heating up. Governor Tom Vilsack approved a ban on the state's lottery TouchPlay machines, giving businesses 45 days to shut them down. It's a move that's not sitting well with owners, but it also could cost the state millions of dollars in revenue. They look a lot......and sound a lot......like a slot machine you'd find in Vegas. You don't have to drive to a casino anymore, you can just play these, said Dan Viereck, manager of the Trophy Cas
Mar 22, 2006, 8:51 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery lawsuit dismissedReply
<< Hight also ordered the plaintiffs to pay the state's legal expenses. >> Cool. If it gets more expensive for all the meddlesome moralizers who think they know what's bad for us to continue their meddling, maybe they'll cut back a bit. Todd wrote: << Although state rulings are not precident-setting in other states (or in federal law), I still think this is a landmark ruling for the lottery industry. I'm not sure if there has ever been a ruling like this one.
Mar 21, 2006, 4:41 pm - KY Floyd - Lottery News

N.C. Lottery under fire in court; Judge may suspend progressNews Story
A Superior Court judge said he would decide this week whether the state should stop work on launching a lottery while lawyers debate whether the game is legal. A group of plaintiffs, led by former N.C. Supreme Court Justice Bob Orr, asked Judge Henry Hight to impose the delay during a two-hour hearing Monday. Orr said House and Senate leaders violated the state constitution in their rush to get the lottery passed last year. The question is 'does political expediency trump the state consti
Feb 14, 2006, 11:00 am - Todd - Lottery News

Lottery: Promises and pitfallsNews Story
A look at problems and solutions of some state lotteries, as North Carolina leaders try to predict their own problems to come.Art Johnson isn't a big gambler but plays the Florida lottery on occasion. No, not because it will help the Palm Beach County School District, where he is superintendent. I want to win, Johnson said with a laugh.Ask him about the lottery's funding for education and Johnson is a lot less jovial. I'm unimpressed, said the former principal and school board member who now h
Dec 26, 2005, 8:42 am - Todd - Lottery News

N.C. gets lottery advice from Georgia, FloridaNews Story
Even as a gaming advocate, Steve Geller offers a bit of caution as North Carolina considers sanctioning a state lottery don't promise too much.Geller's home state of Florida has shipped $14 billion in lottery profits to a state education trust fund since the lottery's 1988 beginning.But it hasn't been nearly enough to escape the sort of criticisms that have come with lotteries nationwide, especially ones intended to help pay for education initiatives. It will help education, but it will never
Jun 6, 2005, 10:27 am - Todd - Lottery News

Virginia provides reference for N.C. lottery decisionNews Story
With its peaked roofs, prairie-style windows and earth-toned stained glass, the elementary school situated on the poor side of town bears the hallmarks of the architect who inspired its design: Frank Lloyd Wright.Yet the soon-to-open Roanoke Academy for Mathematics and Science Elementary School is more than eye candy.What other elementary school, especially one where 98 percent of students receive free or reduced lunches, has a greenhouse? And halls that look like downtown streets, complete
Apr 18, 2005, 10:09 am - Todd - Lottery News