Four Chinese nationals, including a casino owner, concocted a plan to recover about $1.22 million in unpaid gambling debts by kidnapping and extorting three Chinese gamblers, military police said on Monday. After one of the held men escaped, however, the alleged kidnappers decided to turn the other two over to authorities, then found themselves detained…
Adam Meyer the South Florida betting expert who called himself “the sports consultant to the stars” was sentenced to prison on Friday for ripping off more than $45 million from one of his clients. Meyer’s bizarre methods included pretending he was other people, adopting a bad fake Chinese accent and making up a story that…
A former J.P. Morgan Chase (jpm) employee who has been ordered to attend counseling for gambling has pleaded guilty to criminal charges that he stole more than $5 million from his employer to pay personal debts, New York prosecutors said. Lawrence Obracanik, 42, pleaded guilty to wire fraud affecting a financial institution on Thursday before…
Vietnams revolutionary founder Ho Chi Minh relied on lottery ticket sales to raise money for schools and hospitals during the war years. Now Hanois Communist leaders are looking to casinos, horse betting and modern lottery-ticket machines to do the same. So far this year Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued two decrees aimed at…
Vietnams revolutionary founder Ho Chi Minh relied on lottery ticket sales to raise money for schools and hospitals during the war years. Now Hanois Communist leaders are looking to casinos, horse betting and modern lottery-ticket machines to do the same. So far this year, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued two decrees aimed at…
The NRLs recent decision to change the requirements in terms of when clubs announce their intended squads for upcoming matches has me a little baffled. It appears that nothing has actually changed. Clubs must announce their 21-man squad by a certain time mid-week and then finalise their squad one hour before kick-off on game day.…
Former NFL running back Clinton Portis is slated for a one-day trial on Sept. 6 over a $170,000 debt owed to Atlantic Citys Borgata casino, Card Player has learned. The case is before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Florida in Gainesville. Portis filed for bankruptcy in 2015 with total debts…
by: Michael Yoshida, ActionNewsJax.com Updated: Feb 21, 2017 – 1:22 PM “; var imageDivId = “#”+”imageDisplayModal_496126406”; if ($(“.reveal-modal-bg”).length == 0) { $(“#wrapper”).after(“”); } if ($(imageDivId).length == 0) { $(“#wrapper”).after(contentText); } A veteran said that he lost millions of dollars as a result of his gambling addiction, and he’s speaking out now that government officials are…
Rubicon Projects president Greg Raifman is leaving the company as part of a leadership team restructuring that will see six other executives leave the ad tech company. In an email to employees, seen by Business Insider, Rubicon Project CEO Frank Addante explained that the reorganization finalised a streamlining process that the company announced on November…
A man accused of murdering a cannabis dealer set up an alibi with a friend by going to the cinema to watch a Rambo film, a Melbourne court has heard. Christopher Lavery, 31, has been charged with murdering James Russouw, 24, by stabbing him in the neck and setting his body and car on fire…
