3704 stories by Philip Conneller
Brett Kavanaugh Grilled on ‘Gambling Addiction’ and Unusually High Credit Card Debt
Last week’s combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearings saw President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, interrogated on everything from his views on racial profiling to abortion rights, but now one Democrat wants to know about his gambling habits. Among a series...
MGM Resorts Offers to Make Charitable Donations on Behalf of Las Vegas Shooting Victims as Reward for Suing Them
MGM Resorts has offered to donate $500 to the charity of choice of each of some 2,500 plaintiffs who were injured or bereaved by the October 1, 2017 Las Vegas shooting, provided they accept legal notice they are being sued by the...
Electronic Arts Faces Criminal Investigation in Belgium for Failing to Remove Loot Boxes from FIFA Video Games
Video game publisher Electronic Arts (EA) is could face prosecution in Belgium for its apparent refusal to scrap loot box microtransactions from its FIFA 18 title, despite the country’s gaming commission having declared them to be illegal “wagers” in their current form....
Employee Charged with Aiding $193K Wind Creek Montgomery Casino Robbery
A kiosk attendant at the Wind Creek Montgomery Casino, in Montgomery Alabama, has been charged in relation to theft from the casino last month of almost $193,000, which remains unrecovered. According to the Montgomery Advertiser, Courtney Deandrea Stanton pleaded not guilty to...
Macau Casino Stocks Tumble Over Concerns of China Economic Slowdown, US Trade War
Macau casino stocks took a hit on Tuesday as Deutsche Bank revised its growth forecast for the gambling hub over concerns that a slowing Chinese economy is impacting on its VIP yield. MGM China was worst affected, falling as much as 8.8...
Online Gaming Increasingly Cited in Divorce Cases, Says Internet Legal Firm
Divorce is back in fashion -- in the UK, at least. While rates have been falling year-on-year in the US since the 1980s, last year the UK saw its first rise this decade in couples ending their marriages, a 5.8 percent increase...
Mohegan Sun Pocono Player Card Scam Informant and Dealer Found Dead in Pennsylvania Creek, ‘Accidental Drowning’ Named as Cause
A Mohegan Sun Pocono dealer who exposed a cheating scam orchestrated by the casino’s VP of player development was pulled dead from a creek in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on Saturday, less than two miles from the casino where he had worked. 28-year-old Matthew Crane's...
New Jersey Sports Betting Revenues to Eclipse Nevada’s in Just Three Years
New Jersey’s sports betting market will overtake Nevada’s by 2021, according to new analysis by Eilers & Krejcik Gaming (EKG). It’s almost four months since New Jersey’s Monmouth Park racetrack took the state’s first legal sports wager and there are now seven...
DOI Reverses Decision on Mashpee Wampanaoag Tribal Land, Stripping Tribe of Sovereignty and $1 Billion Casino
The Mashpee Wampanaoag tribe has been dealt a devastating blow in its bid to build a $1 billion casino in Taunton, Massachusetts. On Friday, the US Department of the Interior ruled that it could not hold land in trust for the tribe,...
Bet365 Million-Pound Customer Payout Dispute Heads to Court
A woman who claims sports betting giant Bet365 owes her more than £1 million in winnings and damages will have her day in court. Northern Irish student Megan McCann was 19 years old when she placed 960 each-way “Lucky 15” bets on...
