2007 November 03 Gambling News, Events and Happenings

Jailed mobster Vincent “Big Vince” Filipelli was indicted yesterday on charges he ran an Internet-based gambling operation and kept a hoard of illegal steroids and weapons at his Cherry Hill home, authorities said. Filipelli, 53, is accused of taking bets on college and professional sports through a Web site, said a spokesman for the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Station Casinos has cleared its final hurdle to going private. The Las Vegas-based company says its more than $5 billion buyout has won approval from the National Indian Gaming Commission.

Masked robbers stormed into an illicit poker game in a midtown Manhattan office building, shooting a New Jersey man dead in a violent stickup, police said.

“We’re getting more from Ohio than we thought we’d get”

WASHINGTON - The Massachusetts congressional delegation is split over Gov. Deval Patrick’s plan to bring casino gambling to the state. Congress won’t be voting…

“I’m not guilty. All of us are not guilty. I’m a university student. I work. I’m not a criminal”

Less than a week after a video bingo hall opened in Luling, the St. Charles Parish Council will consider whether to outlaw the latest generation of the devices, which look a lot more like slot machines than your grandma’s bingo card.

The Connecticut Indian tribe that operates the Foxwoods casino and its Las Vegas partner are actively scouring Massachusetts for casino locations, part of a race between two of Connecticut’s tribes to protect their share of the New England gambling market.

Antigua plans to use an upcoming Caribbean business conference attended by U.S. legislators to press its case on discriminatory online gambling legislation in the U.S.