US arrest threat over web poker

[emad]

June 26, 2005

THE US Department of Justice will consider arresting executives of Party Gaming, the online poker firm that is due to join the London Stock Exchange tomorrow, writes Dominic Rushe in New York.

The justice department considers online gambling to be illegal. According to Party Gaming’s prospectus, 87% of its revenues come from Americans.

On Friday, a justice department spokeswoman said it was looking at a variety of options to clamp down on online gambling. “We could arrest and prosecute these people if they come back in to the country,” she said.

However, a spokesman for Party Gaming insisted that its executives would continue to travel to the US.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1669193,00.html

[leesa]

1. Where's the anthrax murderer?

[Jim Sagle]

3. In the Oval Office.

[Eugene]

2. I feel so safe knowing how Justice protects us from

piracy, pr0n, and gambling!
They really have their priorities straight.
:sarcasm:

[oneold1-4u]

4. Hope the Indians- -

Will soon contact these people and I won't have to travel down the street to make my "Donation to the Nation". My phrase for helping the Native American buy back this (their) country!

[VegasWolf]

5. Bush agenda; outlaw pornography, gambling, med marijuanna, assisted

suicide, stem cell research, Roe vs Wade, dancing, liquor, etc.

[donco6]

6. So our prisons aren't full enough already?

We have to arrest foreign internet gamers?

I feel safer already.