Posts From: January 2026

Basketball hit with fresh gambling scandal as 20 people are charged with rigging college games

A gambling indictment that has shaken the college basketball world includes a 2024 game at the M.A.C. Center. According to reporting from WCMH in Columbus and WIVB in Buffalo, multiple Buffalo men’s basketball players were named in...

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Kalshi faces class-action lawsuit in New York

A class action lawsuit has been filed inn New York alleging that Kalshi runs an online sports betting platform without the necessary licenses, even in states where such gambling is prohibited. The lawsuit, spanning 42 pages, maintains that Kalshi’s platform offers what it terms a “prediction market,” where users can buy...

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Singapore jails businessmen over Wirecard fraud

A Singapore court sentenced two businessmen to lengthy jail terms on Tuesday for falsifying documents that tricked auditors into believing payments firm Wirecard had hundreds of millions of euros in...

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Sports Betting Alliance files lawsuit against Chicago over licensing issues

The Sports Betting Alliance, an advocacy group for several of the nation’s major sportsbooks, sued the city of Chicago seeking to prevent it from enforcing a new ordinance that would...

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EU advisor questions Google’s impartiality on gambling ads

Google’s handling of gambling-related promotions has come under renewed legal scrutiny in the EU, after a senior adviser to the bloc’s top court warned that the platform’s legal immunity depends...

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WhatsApp bookie sentenced following UKGC investigation

A man who ran an illegal WhatsApp gambling business and failed to pay a customer’s £269,000 account balance has received a 30 week suspended jail sentence and a 200 hour...

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NBA player Terry Rozier denies US illegal gambling charges

Terry Rozier pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges in an alleged illegal gambling and sports rigging scheme. He was one of 34 people arrested in October, including former NBA...

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Premier League owner accused of operating secret £600m gambling syndicate

Another betting scandal has rocked the Premier League after a report revealed Brighton & Hove Albion owner Tony Bloom is accused of using a £600 million gambling syndicate to bet on football matches. It’s...

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Prohibited betting in floorball leads to sanctions

The Competition and Disciplinary Committee (KKR) of the Finnish Floorball Federation announced on Wednesday 3 December the sanctions related to prohibited betting. A total of 80 fixed-term competition bans were...

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Kalshi sues department of consumer protection

Kalshi has filed a lawsuit in the Connecticut District Court in response to Connecticut’s latest order, seeking an injunction barring the enforcement of the cease-and-desist order. Recently, the firm says...

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