Prosecutors plaintiffs aim to curb Internet gambling
Hockey star Jaromir Jagr - won fame plays forward for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, and New York Rangers - has become the celebrity face of another game: Internet gambling. Jagr, the highest-paid player in the National Hockey League, lost $ 500000 more than two years of bets on sporting events via an Internet site.”It was not wise,” said Jagr.
And it may have been illegal - even though under current law, which is far from clear. With the Internet gambling bills in Congress stalled, prosecutors, the abuses to stop the online betting were forced to focus on a 43-year-old statute, whose authors could not have predicted the emergence of the Internet. In the state courts, lawyers representing consumers, say they were lured into online betting and lose have to antigambling and consumer protection laws for remedial action.
“Internet gambling is different from other forms of gambling in this, there are few - if any - arrangements to ensure the fairness of the games or the responsibility of the operator game,” said an American Psychiatric Association (APA) mental health advisory on Internet gambling . These on-line gambling, may be the subject of fraud or theft through the Internet sites they frequent, which may also in criminal pursuits such as money laundering.
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