Blogguy how dare you suggest I purposely made misstatements. I've said David Carruthers was not involved in organized crime and I stick by that. You stated
AND OUR FRONT PAGE ARTICLE WRITER IS SAYING IN TWO DIFFERENT POSTS IN THIS THREAD THAT THERE'S NO PROOF THAT ONLINE GAMBLING HAD CONNECTIONS TO ORGANIZED CRIME, AND THERE'S NOT A CONNECTION BETWEEN CARRUTHERS AND ORGANIZED CRIME.
How much research could have gone into those statements? How stupid does that make us look when we had posted earlier articles detailing the connections? Now you're stating that "of course" organized crime had been involved in gaming. Why didn't Hartley know that?
I don't understand your analogy. There was a local bakery here that was set up from mob money. It has done very well and the owner (who is in the Russian mafia) decided to make one of the bakers there in charge of the bakery because she was very good at what she did and had good business sense. So this baker is now somehow involved in organized crime?
I never said that organized crime has never been involved in online gambling. Don't put words in my mouth. What I said is that the people the U.S. government has arrested were not involved in organized crime. So if organized crime is indeed their big concern with offshore gambling how come we haven't seen mafia people or similar arrested?
Drunkguy, I don't think regulation would be a bad thing provided it's done in the same way that Britain and Antigua have set it up. I have some ideas that I will put in the articles I plan to put up this month. If it's basically going to become another government run beaurocracy and a money pit like the lotteries then I agree with you wholeheartedly.  |