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4177 stories by Philip Conneller
Daegu Casino in South Korea Bilked Foreign Players for $3.5M, Say Prosecutors
South Korean prosecutors have indicted 12 people suspected of defrauding foreign patrons during crooked games at Golden Crown’s Daegu Casino. The casino is based at the Hotel Inter-Burgo in the city of Daegu in the...
Mohegan Sun Chief Marilynn Malerba Named First Native American US Treasurer
For the first time in history, the signature of a Native American will adorn US currency. The Biden administration has named Mohegan Indian Tribe Lifetime Chief Marilynn Malerba as the new US Treasurer. As the...
Macau Approves Gambling Reforms, Casinos Face Tighter Controls
Lawmakers in Macau have approved sweeping changes to the enclave’s gambling law, ushering in the first major reforms to its casino market since liberalization in 2002. The new legislation will hand Macau’s government greater oversight...
London Slots Parlor Killer Gets Life for ‘Inhuman’ Attack on Stranger
An Eritrean man who tortured a stranger to death in a London slots parlor has been imprisoned for life for the killing. Abel Berhany, 23, was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and undiagnosed paranoid schizophrenia...
Nirvana Producer Steve Albini Wins WSOP H.O.R.S.E. Bracelet, Drops It, Breaks It
Record producer Steve Albini has been making noise in the poker world. The former Big Black punk rocker won his second WSOP bracelet Saturday, taking down the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. tournament for $196,089. Albini outlasted 773...
ThePokies.Net Targeted in Australia Illegal Gambling Crackdown
Australian communications regulator ACMA has ordered internet service providers to block online casino ThePokies.net after data showed it attracted 30,000 Australians each month. The regulator said it had received reports from customers who claimed they...
Malta: Europe’s Online Gaming Hub Removed from Graylist
Malta, Europe’s foremost online gambling hub, has been removed from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) graylist. It’s news that will have politicians in the tiny Mediterranean island-state and its online gambling industry exhaling. The...
BC Casino Money Laundering Inquiry: Politicians Failed, But No Evidence of Corruption
An 1,800-page report into historical money laundering at British Columbia casinos found no trace of political corruption. But it did make 101 recommendations to combat the flow of dirty cash through the province. Among them...
Michigan Gov. Whitmer Steamrolls Little River Band Casino Proposal
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Wednesday rejected a proposed off-reservation casino for near Fruitport, Muskegon County. The decision effectively torpedoes the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians' 12-year effort to build the casino on the...
Mohegan Sun Bus Driver Ate Gummies Laced with THC, Passed Out on Freeway
A bus driver was charged with 38 counts of reckless endangerment after passing out on I-95 while ferrying a busload of Boston casino-goers back home from Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun. The driver allegedly also polished off...
