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They are charging Peter dicks with Gambling by computer, which is punishable by one year in jail and will probably just end up being fined and released. The U.S. government has learned its terror tactics well and is trying to scare books into closing like they did with BOS. Dont play into it stand behind the books you trust!!

No rackateering or tax evasion just bullshit charge to see if it crumbles like bos caved in. Shame on you BoS for caving like a cheap house of cards under the slightest hint of pressure.
 

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Seems to me if you want the tax evasion charge against BOS to hold up, you have to charge sportsbook as well. You now have their chair in jail in the states and they don't owe taxes, but we do - seems like a pretty good defense to an "excise" tax on bets... I can hear DC's lawyer now.

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i just pulled this up on the web

D. Whoever commits the crime of gambling by computer shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

LOL, plead guilty pay the damn fine and get the hell out. Oh yeah and all you ceo's and execs might want to cancel your vacations to the U.S. for the time being
 

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while its true that the charge is ridiculous........they have said they have additional charges.......we will have to wait until the pandora box is completely open to see what else they might try to charge this guy with
 

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the government is trying to send a message. and that is if you want to go offshore to work in online gambling....stay offshore and coming back to the states in not an option. can't have it both ways.
 
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There are conflicting stories in the media about the charge and possible sentence. I've read one year & I've read five. As it stands, this is no big deal and would never have made the press if it was not for the BoS arrest.

It's a hot issue right now, so the media overhypes it to no end. What concerns me is the fact that there are supposedly other charges that have not yet been unsealed. I tend to think they are just more state charges, which would make this a rather minor issue.

If it's another big fed shakedown, well-that's an uglier picture.
 

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FYI:
People convicted of running a computer gambling operation face a maximum sentence of five years in jail "with or without hard labour" and a $20,000 fine, according to the Louisiana law.
 

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deucedeuce said:
LOL, they still have hard labour.

fyi:
Angola is the Louisiana State Penitentiary and is estimated to be the largest prison in the U.S. with 5,000 inmates and over 1,000 staff. Located on an 18,000 acre (73 km²) plantation close to the Mississippi border, it is surrounded on three sides by the Mississippi River, making flooding a constant menace.
The land that has become Angola Penitentiary was purchased by Isaac Franklin from Francis Routh during the 1830s with the profits from his slave trading firm, Armfield and Franklin, of Alexandria, Virginia and Natchez, Mississippi as four contiguous plantations. These plantations, Panola, Belle View, Killarney and Angola, were joined during their sale by Franklin's widow, Adelicia Hayes, to Samuel Lawrence James in 1880. Samuel James ran the plantation using convicts leased from the State of Louisiana. The State of Louisiana only assumed full control in 1901. In 1916 to save money, all the guards were fired, and selected inmates were used as trustees, a system which led to a great deal of abuse.
By the 1950s, Angola had degenerated to become one of the very worst prisons in the U.S. In 1952, 31 inmates cut their Achilles' tendons in protest of the hard work and brutality. (referred to as the Heel String Gang) Conditions improved—only to worsen again in the 1960s as the corrections budget was cut.
In 1972, a reforming director of corrections was appointed by Governor Edwin Edwards, and the U.S. courts ordered Louisiana to clean up Angola once and for all. Successive wardens have continued the improvements, and Angola is now regarded as a showcase among U.S. penal establishments. Current Warden Burl Cain maintains an open-door policy with the media, which led to the production of the award winning documentary The Farm. Films such as Dead Man Walking and Monster's Ball were partly filmed in Angola.
Indeed, Angola is still run as a working farm, and Cain once said that the key to running a peaceful maximum security prison was that "you've got to keep the inmates working all day so they're tired at night."
The prison hosts a rodeo every April and October, and its inmates produce the award winning magazine The Angolite, available to the general public and free to publish whatever it chooses. There is also a museum which features among its exhibits Louisiana's old electric chair, "Gruesome Gertie", last used for the execution of Andrew Lee Jones on 22 July 1991.
 

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Louisiana is one of the worst states to go to prison in....believe me you don't ever want to get busted in Louisiana
 

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