3704 stories by Philip Conneller
Rush Street Interactive Strikes Deal with Magic City to Take Jai Alai Betting Online
Rush Street Interactive has partnered with Florida parimutuel venue Magic City in a deal that will take jai alai betting online for the first time. The partnership will give the BetRivers online sportsbook exclusive rights to Magic City Jai-Alai’s official league data...
Cambodian Online Gaming, Fraud, Human Trafficking Compound Raided
A joint task force comprised of Cambodian and Chinese law enforcement raided a compound in Phnom Penh on Friday, seizing equipment connected to illegal online gaming and internet fraud. More than 200 people were detained at the large, gated complex in the...
Middleweight Champ Imprisoned for Racketeering, Scamming Casinos Gets Early Release
Former champion boxer Avtandil Khurtsidze is expected to be released from prison next week. He was imprisoned in 2017 for a decade on casino fraud and racketeering charges. Khurtsidze held the IBO title in 2011 and the WBO interim title in 2017....
Luxor Casino Bomber Omar Rueda-Denvers Found Guilty at Retrial
A Guatemalan man convicted of conspiring to plant a bomb in the Luxor Casino parking garage in 2007 has once again been found guilty of crimes, including murder, after a retrial in Las Vegas. As they had at the original trial, prosecutors...
Former Director of Belgian Gaming Regulator Sentenced for Hacking, Spying on Boss
Peter Naessens, the former director general of Belgium’s gaming commission, avoided prison last week. That's after he was convicted of hacking and spying on the commission’s president, Etienne Marique, The Brussels Times reports. Naessens was handed a 12-month suspended sentence by a...
Chicago Sky Owner Fined for ‘Unregistered Lobbying’ of Mayor for Sports Betting License
The owner of the Chicago Sky WNBA team has denied he improperly lobbied the city’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, for a sports betting license. Michael Alter was fined $5,000 after he asked the mayor to support his efforts to obtain a license while...
James Packer Selling $283M Mega-Yacht, as Crown Resorts Hits Headwinds
James Packer is selling his yacht. The Crown Resorts billionaire listed the vessel for sale this week with international superyacht broker Burgess Yachts. The asking price is $283 million, around $83 million more than he paid for it in 2019. The yacht...
Casino @ Dania Beach Jettisons Jai Alai, America’s Most Endangered Sport
One of just four remaining professional jai alai frontons in the US announced Wednesday it will close. The Casino @ Dania beach in Miami has hosted jai alai games for 69 years. But it won’t make 70. On November 28, players will...
‘Love and Hip-Hop: Atlanta’ Star Mo Fayne Jailed for Fraud, Wired $5M to Casino
Love and Hip-Hop: Atlanta star Maurice “Mo” Fayne will serve 17 and a half years in federal prison. That's after pleading guilty to crimes including fraud involving the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and operating a Ponzi scheme. According to prosecutors, Fayne used...
Fred Dakota, ‘Grandfather of Indian Gaming,’ Dies at Age 84
Fred Dakota, former chair of Michigan's Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC), has died aged 84. Dakota was known by some as "the grandfather of Indian gaming" for his DIY casino operations and resulting legal battles. In the 1980s, the father of five,...
