3662 stories by Philip Conneller
Tyson Foods Managers Gambled on Workers Catching COVID-19 in Sick Office Pool
Managers at meat industry giant Tyson Foods took bets on which workers would contract Covid-19 as a coronavirus outbreak swept through its Waterloo, Iowa facility. The company has endured months of negative headlines over its response to the coronavirus pandemic. Despite meat-processing...
Drug Enforcement Agency to Repay Gambler’s Money Seized at Airport
The federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has agreed to return $43,000 in cash snatched from a Florida woman last May as she traveled to a casino reopening in North Carolina. Stacy Jones was informed by DEA officials that the cash she was...
$1.6 Billion Crown Sydney December Opening Banned, License Hangs in Balance
Crown Resorts has been told by the New South Wales gaming regulator (ILGA) to put the opening of its $A2.2 billion ($1.6 billion) new Crown Sydney on ice. That's pending the verdict in February of a licensing suitability investigation. The embattled casino...
Ex-Gambling Kingpin ‘Skinny’ Joey Merlino Denounces ‘Crazy’ Pennsylvania Ballot-Fixing Allegation
Reputed Philadelphia Mob boss ‘Skinny’ Joey Merlino has been reluctantly dragged into President Donald Trump’s ballot-fixing conspiracy. The former gambling kingpin, who once offered odds on his own trial, has been forced to denounce a story that he helped manufacture 300,000 illegal...
Tennessee Sports Betting Books $27.4 Million in First Week, But Are Operators Ignoring Minimum Hold?
Tennessee’s online-only regulated sports betting market got off to strong start at the beginning of November, with nearly $27.4 million wagered the first week of its existence, according to figures from the Tennessee Lottery. When the state’s Republican Governor Bill Lee begrudgingly...
Bags Stuffed with Cash at BC Casinos was Asian ‘Cultural’ Quirk, Claimed Regulator
An inquiry into money laundering at British Columbia casinos has heard an astonishing allegation. The operator-regulator BC Lottery Corp once suggested that Asians appearing at gaming establishments with bags stuffed with cash was a “cultural” norm. In an internal 2013 newsletter titled...
EA Now Lets Players Set Spending Limits on FIFA 21 FUT Packs
FIFA 21 publisher Electronic Arts (EA) rolled out new player protections for the globally popular soccer simulation video game Tuesday. These include the ability for players to set limits on the time and money they are spending on the game. The new...
Crown Resorts Believed Chinese Operations Were Legit Prior to ‘Gambling Crimes’ Arrests
The Crown Resorts board did not believe it was breaking Chinese law when 16 of its staff members were imprisoned in China in 2016. This was despite warnings a year earlier that a crackdown against recruiting Chinese citizens to gamble overseas was...
COVID-19 Spike Shuts Down Table Games in Colorado
All table game action in Colorado has been killed as part of new measures to repel a surge of coronavirus cases, The Colorado Springs Gazette reports. This comes ten days after residents voted to allow casino towns to raise per-hand betting limits....
Rogue Online Gaming Hub Curaçao Vows to Clean Up Its Act in Return for COVID-19 Rescue Package
Curaçao’s days as a haven for shady online gambling sites may be numbered. A financial bailout package from the Dutch government this month comes with conditions -- the island has been told to clean up its act. Travel restrictions imposed to combat...
