March 30, 2014
With launch of the Graham-Chaffetz banning bills in Congress still creating industry ripples this week, a New York lawmaker has taken the initiative and launched an intrastate online poker legalisation bill in the state Senate. The man behind SB 6913 is Republican Party state Senator John Bonacic, who is clearly not interested in being on […]
December 25, 2013
US newspapers, especially those on the East Coast, have been reporting legislative moves to expand New York state land gambling facilities for some months, and on Monday the issue jumped into the headlines again with a speculative report that the parent group of the online poker giant Pokerstars – the Isle of Man-based Rational Group […]
December 13, 2013
Another high profile figure from the New York illegal gambling “art dealer” bust earlier this year, Molly Bloom aka the Poker Princess, entered a guilty plea Thursday before a federal court in New York. Bloom specialised in hosting high stakes poker games for celebrities, starting in Los Angeles and moving to New York before returning […]
November 28, 2013
A former Branch Manager at Manhattan Bank has pled guilty in Manhattan Federal Court to assisting Illya Trincher, a key figure in an international sportsbook ring, with structuring financial transactions. Ronald Uy (33) is the nineteenth defendant to plead guilty in the New York “art gallery” illegal gambling ring investigation (see previous reports) led by […]
November 15, 2013
The New York “art gallery” illegal gambling ring takedown resulted in further confessions Thursday when defendant Vadim Trincher and his son Eugene entered guilty pleas regarding illegal gambling and participating in a racketeering conspiracy that allegedly processed tens of millions of dollars of wagering proceeds through banks in Russia, Cyprus and the United States. The […]
November 13, 2013
Hillel Nahmad (35), scion of a super-wealthy New York art dealer family and a defendant in a sensational local poker bust, pleaded guilty late Tuesday to a single federal gambling charge, part of a major racketeering indictment that also named several reputed Russian mobsters. U.S. and international media widely reported that Nahmad admitted to the […]