Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2007 9:46 pm Post subject: Seattle Residents facing Online gambling charges
DONALDSONVILLE, La. (AP) - Three Seattle residents flew to the Baton Rouge area to face charges that their gambling Web site is illegal in Louisiana.
Nicholas G. Jenkins, 38; Josie M. Imlay, 24; and Peter M. Abrahamsen, 25, were booked in Ascension Parish, near Baton Rouge, with illegal gambling by computer. The state police investigator who placed bets at Betcha.com did so from a computer in that parish.
The crime carries up to 5 years in prison and a fine of $20,000
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Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 12:02 pm Post subject:
This is actually an interesting story. This is not your normal betting site.
The owner is currently in the process of suing the state of Washington claiming that it's anti-internet gambling bill is an illegal restraint of trade based on the Constitutions commerce clause.
The site itself is, according to them, an ebay type site that enables people to bet among themselves, at whatever odds and stakes the participants agree to. So the site itself is not engaged in the business of betting, wagering, booking bets or wagers, establishing odds or payoffs, or anything along those lines.
Actually, Nick Jenkins' defense is that he does not operate a gambling site as defined under the laws of either Washington or Louisiana. His attorney Lee Rousso has filed a lawsuit to declare the law in Washington banning online gambling to violate the US constitution.
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