Arrests of Online Gambling Kingpin and Others May be Illegal

While the U.S. government's attempted crackdown on the multibillion-dollar online gaming industry has resulted in the arrest of one industry kingpin this week, a leading expert in online gambling said the crackdown not only won't work, but it likely isn't even legal.

And, almost on cue, a new online poker site " Absolute Poker's AP Lady -- was launched Wednesday from Costa Rica aimed largely at an audience of U.S. women.

"It's just wrong," said former New Jersey gaming regulator Frank Catania of the U.S. Department of Justice's campaign to stop U.S. citizens from gambling online. "We're becoming the gambling police for the entire world and it just won't work." Catania, a former assistant attorney general and director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement, believes online gaming can't be effectively stopped because there are so many sites, at least 70 of them according to a recent count.

July 19, 2006
Posted By Bob Hartman
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