This is exactly the area I want my tax dollar and law enforcement effort applied. I feel safer from...well, nothing...because of this operation.
Dan
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Are you guilty of 'aiding and abetting' illegal gambling?
>>Federal prosecutors say helping Americans find online casinos or sports betting operations could amount to "aiding and abetting" illegal gambling, a crime punishable by up to two years in prison.<<
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Dave, it seems to me that the article was talking about businesses that help Americans find online casinos, etc., not Bill Jones telling Joe Smith. If I called a friend and said I was vacationing in a casino and he said, "Put $20 on black on the roulette wheel for me.", Did we just violate the law?
In any case, the article said in part, " The law is not nearly as clear as Kulstad implies. The Justice Department maintains that online gambling is banned by the 1961 Wire Act, which prohibits anyone 'engaged in the business of betting or wagering' from using 'a wire communication facility for the transmission in interstate or foreign commerce of bets or wagers or information assisting in the placing of bets or wagers.'
But gambling sites are based in countries where online wagering is perfectly legal. It's debatable whether a bet placed by an American via the Internet takes place on his computer, at the casino in, say, Costa Rica, or somewhere in between."
Interesting stand. Since betting on a football game is legal in Nevada, would his logic mean that he thinks it should be be O.K. for me to make a bet with Harrah's (Nevada Casino) with my computer, phone, letter, or even radio? Would it also mean that it would be legal for Harrah's to take the bet? (It does take two to tango.)
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The government is beating companies into submission with the threat of prosecution based on a point of law that is entirely unsettled.
Not a good show at all.
Dan
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Hi, Dan.
More importantly, think of the government resources being wasted on nonsense like this, while Tenet says it'll take five years until our intelligence capabilities are where they need to be! This says to me that the government STILL hasn't made terrorism the top priority!
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While tending to agree that gambling law enforcement isn't a high priority, do we ignore most of our laws and their enforcement until we feel safe from terroism? If so, we should just go ahead and do the sensible thing and require every law expire 10 or 20 years after it's passed unless there is a vote by Congress to renew it, need that anyway.
Gambling is still linked in the minds of many to organized crime, whether or not that's an issue here.
Heck, technically I can buy lottery tickets in Virginia, but being in possession of them when I get home in NC is illegal. Not anything they enforce. But picking up some for friends is another offense, again, not a high priority, unless they get wind someone is buying huge blocks and reselling them. Even if you don't make anything, that's running an illegal numbers game.
I wouldn't want them to put too much manpower on such, but if you ignore it completely, it'll grow into a problem, you can bet on it.
RogerNC
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