2006 September 03 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

New South Wales Police Minister Carl Scully says a task force will be set up to examine criminal money laundering through poker machines across the state.

The Canberra Times reports that the CFMEU operated Dickson Tradies and the Belconnen Labor club lead the rest of the pack in swindling the most out of stupid people last year as Canberra’s poker machines raked …

Dorothy Parker, the editor of BBC’s Frontline Scotland, writes about the programme’s investigation into Glasgow’s bid for a super-casino.

The economic benefits of a super-casino may be undermined by negative social impact, a study finds.

British bosses of the company bidding to build a super-casino at the Millennium Dome have admitted holding meetings with John Prescott - describing him as the scheme’s ‘landlord

THE Government is to make the owner of the Millennium Dome rip up its agreement with a foreign gambling company that would have given it exclusive rights to operate a casino in the Dome, The Times has learnt.

Doha: At least two gangs are running gambling rackets in Qatar, attracting gamblers from other Gulf countries, a local paper said on Sunday.

The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians is using its riches from casino gambling to fund a potentially precedent-setting legal fight contending that tribes are exempt from federal labor laws because they are sovereign governments.

Investigators plan to reconstruct two speedboats that collided on Lake Texoma to gather clues about the crash that left five people dead and one injured, authorities said Sunday.