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Off Track: Clandestine Racing in California
This story delved into an unknown world of illegal and clandestine horse racing happening on private tracks throughout the state of California. The straight-track races occur on properties throughout the state. KCRA uncovered a world where drug deals, prostitution, illegal gambling and animal cruelty are the norm. KCRA got the point of view of investigators and a veterinary scientist who found that horses were being dosed with mixtures of cocaine and methamphetamine. Added to this was the fact that few local law enforcement know it's happening and state investigators don't have the resources to stop the racing from happening.
Tags: Horse racing; drug deals; prostituion; gambling; animal abuse; veterinary science; cocaine; methamphetamine
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The Cheaters
A 60-Minutes, Washington Post joint investigation found that a small group of people managed to cheat players out of more than 20 million dollars. And that no law enforcement agency in the world is pursing the case. Both playing and running an online gambling Web site is considered illegal in the United States. Than ban is almost impossible to enforce; the sites and the computers that run them are located offshore beyond U.S. jurisdiction.
Tags: internet gambling; poker; cheating; Absolute Poker; Mohawk nation; computer servers; scam; Ultimate Bet;
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Worth the Gamble
KHOU investigates the seemingly "laissez-faire" attitude of the Houston Police Department towards illegal gambling halls that appear sometimes right next door to police centers. These "eight-liner" gambling rooms drag the neighborhoods down into illegal violence with them and when police do show up, they issue small citations instead of addressing the illegal gambling problem at hand.
Tags: illegal gambling; "eight-liner" rooms; police involvement; Houston Police Department; gambling halls
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Siren song: Gambling's allure
Utah formally outlaws all forms of gambling. However, it is available in both illegal and legal forms. There is extensive gambling on the border between Idaho and Utah. Also "bingo halls" and "poker clubs", numerous in Utah, are essentially casinos using loopholes in the law. Internet gambling also is popular due to lax law enforcement.
Tags: gambling; Utah; casinos; lottery; illegal gambling; bingo; poker
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"Illegal...And Thriving"
PartyGaming Inc., a British company that operates on-line gambling sites, is at the vanguard of a global goldrush. Even though 90 percent of PartyGaming's revenues come from the U.S., and the Justice Department swears that online gambling is 100 percent illegal, nothing has been done to stop the trend. And with billions of dollars of potential revenues involved, land-based U.S. casinos are eager to get a piece of the on-line action.
Tags: Internet gaming; Internet gambling; IPO's; offshore companies; DOJ
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Unfavorable odds: Illegal gambling machines
This investigation reveals how pervasive illegal video gambling is in Indiana and Kentucky and why it is largely overlooked and unofficially tolerated. The stories also explore the effect such unregulated gambling is having on people's lives. Prosecutors in Indiana cite the long odds of winning any convictions if they try to prosecute the bars and truck stops that own the gambling machines because Indiana has legalized casino gambling. The machines themselves pay out at about 55 to 60 cents per dollar compared with 80 to 93 cents per dollar at regulated, legal casinos.
Tags: gambling; slot machines; video gambling machines; illegal gambling
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Investigation of Racing Services Inc.
The Forum investigates a Fargo based company, Racing Services Inc, a private company that controlled betting locations. This company had satellite feeds at various locations to screen horse and dog races from around the country. As the reporters found out, this company had a controversial "rebate" system and they did not report almost 99% of these bets placed to the government.
Tags: Racing; horse racing; dog racing; betting; betting on horses; FOIA; gambling; betting for charities; money laundering; illegal gambling operation
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The Underground Economy: Illegal Markets in America
A Marketplace week-long investigative series explores "how underground entrepreneurs - or criminals - make their business work while operating in ... America's many illegal markets." Washington-based reporter Steven Henn reveals how, in one way or another, government has pushed underground many industries and activities - including currency exchange, drugs, gun sales and ownership, gambling, abortion services, prostitution and midwives' birth-help practice. The series poises the question: Are these industries made more or less dangerous and abhorrent now that they have been pushed underground? One of the main reporting challenges has been protecting the identity of the interviewed criminals.
Tags: AUDIO TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; money laundering; drugs; gambling; trafficking; guns; drug dealers; CIA; intelligence; OECD; economy; personal safety; black markets; peso exchange
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Illegal Gambling in Hawaii
This series of stories contains an "undercover video of illegal gambling casinos. Most such casinos have traditionally been confined to the Chinatown area of Honolulu, heavily secured, difficult to penetrate. But they started spreading in recent years to different areas of town, less rigidly operated. In the course of researching the story, we touched base with the police gambling detail. They asked us to hold off ... for two months. We said that's too long and went with the story. Ten days later, cops and the FBI raided several locations."
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Cashing Out
WANE-TV examines problems with illegal use of video gambling machines in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The report reveals numerous breaches of the state law that allows local businesses to have video gambling machines for amusement only. A hidden camera investigation finds that bartenders often hand over pay-outs to the gamblers.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; crime; police; Cherry Masters