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The Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department announced Friday that the controversial and somewhat ambiguous new rules, which had been scheduled to take effect on Dec...Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., a leading critic of the new rules, said the delay would...
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Treasury and Federal Reserve on Friday delayed the implementation date for a new Internet gambling payment ban for six months, a move that gives lawmakers time to overturn it or end confusion over illegal practices. In a joint statement, the Treasury...
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The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling. The two agencies said Friday that the new rules, which were to take effect on...
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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.), along with 17 other lawmakers, urged federal regulators to postpone the effective date of the new rules by one year...In a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman...
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A U.S. appeals court has upheld an Internet gambling ban in a challenge filed by an association of offshore bookies. Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act in 2006. It outlaws online betting that would be illegal in the state where...
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It said the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York had agreed not to prosecute PartyGaming or its subsidiaries for providing internet gambling services to customers in the US prior to George Bush's clampdown on online gaming on 13...
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The European Commission said on Thursday that U.S. laws affecting foreign suppliers of online gambling services were in breach of the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules. The European Union (EU)'s executive arms said its investigation had found that...
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It's not the kind of new chapter in the history of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC that executives have in mind, but two bankruptcy experts unveiled a plan Thursday for a "Chapter 10" bankruptcy tailor-made for automakers. While it's just an idea,...
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The future of Internet gambling, which the Bush administration sought to bar in a rule issued in November, remains "very much up in the air," a Nevada regulator told lawmakers Tuesday. Dennis Neilander, chairman of the state Gaming Control Board, told...
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PartyGaming, the online gambling operator, revealed today that it was close to agreeing a settlement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ) that avoided any criminal plea. The announcement came ahead of an expected court appearance in New York by Anurag...
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