2006 August 30 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 3

NETHERLANDS As reported by NIS News: “In a letter to the European Commission, the Dutch government has repeated that the Dutch policy on gambling does not violate European rules. Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner has informed the Lower House about the letter.

MINNESOTA As reported by the Duluth News Tribune: “A draft report from the legislative auditor finds that the Minnesota Council on Compulsive Gambling received payments for costs not allowed under state or city contracts, that the council’s work didn’t meet state expectations, and that the city of Duluth did not include key accountability provisions in its contracts with the council.

EUTAW, Ala. Greene County Sheriff Johnny Isaac has agreed to repay an eleven-hundred dollar bonus he paid to himself from the county’s bingo fund. But says he plans to keep the more than 15-thousand dollars that state auditors had asked him to give back.

DENVER, Colo. — Denver police have busted what they said was an illegal gambling operation at a northwest Denver club, confiscating more than $10,000 in cash and a large amount of suspected cocaine.

They renamed the National Tennis Center, home of the U.S. Open, the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center this week. She was rightfully honored for her great contributions to tennis, and women’s sports in general, and for one match in particular, her 1973 victory over Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes.

Non-gambler Professor Stephen Crow is an unlikely choice to decide the siting of the UK’s first super casino.

Total mobile gambling revenues in the Asia-Pacific region are set to rise from $966m in 2006 to $8.8bn come 2011, according to the latest industry report by Juniper Research.

The former commander of the American Legion Post in Wharton, his girlfriend, his son, and two others were indicted this morning on charges of running a gambling operation in 2005.

Greene County Sheriff Johnny Isaac has agreed to repay a $1,100 bonus he paid to himself from the county’s bingo fund, but says he plans to keep $15,600 that state examiners have asked him to give back.