Posts From: February 2025

Lottery ‘courier’ investigated over $83m jackpot ticket

The fifth-largest prize ever won in the Texas Lottery has one government official searching for answers. “This is not the way the lottery was designed to operate,” Texas Lt. Gov....

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TwinSpires wins injunction to continue operations in Michigan

Churchill Downs’ subsidiary TwinSpires filed suit in federal court against the Michigan Gaming Control Board in January after the state tried to force the betting platform to stop allowing Michigan...

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DAZN’s Ligue 1 legal claim ‘amounts to €573m’

DAZN is demanding a whopping €573 million from the league’s governing body claiming they have been duped by LFP in regard to the number of subscribers they hoped to gain when they acquired...

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Pin-Up director detained by Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation

Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) have detained the director of a company that operated in Ukraine under the online casino brand “PIN-UP.” The investigation has revealed that...

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Ohtani’s former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, sentenced in betting scandal

The former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced Thursday to nearly five years in prison for bank and tax fraud after he stole nearly $17 million from the Los Angeles...

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Suspicious betting activity triggers federal investigation into NBA player Terry Rozier 

Jontay Porter may not have been the only NBA player involved in manipulating performance for sports bettors. Federal investigators are looking into unusual betting activity relating to current Miami Heat...

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DraftKings settles NFL players union lawsuit 

DraftKings has resolved a lawsuit brought by the National Football League Players Association for allegedly failing to pay for using NFL player likenesses, according to a joint filing on Monday in...

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Sky Betting & Gaming breaks user’s rights with targeted ads

Flutter Entertainment subsidiary Sky Bet illegally collected the data of a gambling-addicted customer to profile him for marketing purposes online, a London judge ruled. Bonne Terre Ltd., operating as Sky...

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Esportes da Sorte is authorized to operate betting in Brazil

The betting house Esportes da Sorte has been added to the list of companies authorized to operate by the Federal Government, through the Secretariat of Prizes and Bets. The concession...

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US regulators to investigate Crypto.com over sports event betting

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission put Super Bowl and other sports-related derivatives contracts traded on Crypto.com’s exchange under review to determine whether they meet legal standards. The agency said in a statement Tuesday...

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