Open this photo in gallery: Diana Gabriele, certified problem gambling counselor at the Residential Centre for Problem Gambling and Digital Dependency at Hotel-Dieu Grace Healthcare in Windsor, Ont., stands inside the common area of the centre on June 6. Today’s clients, Ms. Gabriele says, tend to be hooked on online casinos and sports betting.Dax Melmer/The...
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An all out effort – Indonesia stage war against online gambling epidemic in country
JAKARTA (Jakarta Post/ANN): A boy and his older brother stole motorbikes in East Java, an elderly man broke into a shoe store and stole shoes in West Sumatra, a village head embezzled his village fund in Central Java and a soldier committed suicide by hanging himself in West Java. All reportedly because of online gambling...
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Florida sports betting challenge turned down by U.S. Supreme Court
The court’s decision keeps online sports betting in Florida in the hands of the state’s Seminole Tribe. Dara Kam | News Service of Florida Video: Inside the Seminole Hard Rock casino and the world’s first guitar-shaped hotel Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida opened Thursday after a $1.5 billion expansion. Janine Zeitlin, jzeitlin@news-press.com In...
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Activist Rev. Al Sharpton issues stark warning to the FTC about two gambling giants
Shohei Ohtani’s former translator to plea guilty following DOJ charges Ippei Mizuhara, Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter, has agreed to plea guilty after he was accused of stealing $16 million from Ohtani. Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton has written a letter to the Federal Trade Commission about what he called a “gambling duopoly” of DraftKings...