Suspended Idaho lawyer, partner convicted of IRS bingo fraud

BOISE, Idaho A pair of Idaho bingo parlor operators face thousands in fines and years in a federal prison after they were convicted today in U-S District Court of…

Read the rest >>

Thu, April 26th, 2007

Related Bingo News:

Gambling casinos info:

  • The Gold Rush brought a huge increase in the amount and types of gambling to California. San Francisco replaced New Orleans as the center for gambling in the United States.
  • Nevada is the oldest and largest legalized gaming center in the United States. Gaming was legalized in Nevada in 1931 in the middle of the Great Depression as a form of economic stimulant.
  • Keno, the casino version of lotto, originated in China nearly 2000 years ago when Cheung Heung devised a lottery as a way of raising funds for his province's army.
  • French mathematician Blaise Pascale is often credited with inventing the roulette wheel as a result of his experiments with perpetual motion machines.