Gambling

Seattle Times - In a 2002 case, the FBI used a keyboard program to obtain gambling records from the computer of Nicodemo Scarfo, Jr., the son of a jailed New Jersey mob boss. In another case, an officer found child pornography on the laptop of a man who flew into Los ...  Read More

Encrypted Laptop Poses Legal Dilemma

Baltimore Sun - SC&H Group: Due to the fact that you have received gambling winnings and losses you are not eligible to file Federal form 1040A in the current year. Rather you must file Federal form 1040. You may have received a W-2G that includes the $1,500 that ...  Read More

Claiming losses from sale of timeshare

Houston Chronicle - The shakedowns were outlined in a sweeping indictment this week that led to the arrests of dozens of mobsters on charges including murder, gambling, drug dealing and credit-card fraud. It was one of the largest mob crackdowns in recent memory. The ...  Read More

Mob tied to big NYC construction jobs

Chicago Sun-Times - Jackson was the producers' early choice for the role of Bishop, a high school dropout with an IQ of 190, and a misfit who is scrambling to erase a gambling debt. Filming on the $10 million, two-hour pilot is under way in Toronto. Jackson, recently seen ...  Read More

Jackson rides 'Creek' role to sci-fi series

Baltimore Sun - By getting in the industry of gambling itself, there's the idea of creating what really are two monopolies: one for the owners of Pimlico and Laurel, and the other for the owners of Rosecroft. They become multimillionaires by default. It guarantees ...  Read More

Weighing the odds for Maryland

New York Post - Everybody thought he was a nice guy," said Joel Winograd, the lawyer for Leonard "The Conductor" DiMaria, who, among other things, is charged with money laundering, stealing union benefits and gambling. "He's probably in Hawaii on the beach spending ...  Read More

GAMBINO KIN'S DIAL AND DASH

Xinhua News Agency - ... be sustained this year. Macao's gross gaming revenue rose 46.6 percent last year to 83 billion patacas (around 10.4 billion U.S. dollars), which boost the island city of 528,000 residents to top Las Vegas as the world's most lucrative gambling ...  Read More

Macao's gaming revenue for 2008 expected to exceed $10 bln

Chicago Tribune - Gambling and horse-racing interests spent more than $2.3 million on lobbying and entertainment during this year's legislative session, continuing a blitz to legalize slot machines that began with the election of Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. Lobbying ...  Read More

Gambling lobby led spending during session

Herald-Dispatch - FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Steve Beshear is planning to unveil gambling legislation by the end of next week, a proposal that he said could bring the state “several hundreds of millions” in new revenue over the next two years. Casino license fees ...  Read More

Beshear says gambling plan due out next week

News.com.au - But it is far worse than gambling because investors who do not take "stop loss" measures to limit losses can shed much more than the money that they bet. The CFD industry estimates that more than $400 billion of CFD trades are carried out each year ...  Read More