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Entering a Guilty Plea

Controversy is heating up the online casino gambling industry as the industry media reports that a former bookmaker in the US – and in fact one of the first internet betting sites to launch for the US market, has plead guilty to promoting illegal gambling activities in the US. The United States government makes headlines on a regular basis because of the government’s decision to harshly prosecute online casinos and gambling companies that dare to operate in the US space. James Giordano operated an illegal offshore betting company for several years before the US government uncovered the betting operation and made a series of key arrests in the case – or actually, the police arrested nearly every single person and company involved!

Giordano’s books were seized and operations stopped within the United States – and perhaps the hardest fact to deal with was the arrest of Giordano’s wife and daughter, all of the company employees and affiliated companies that were facilitating Giordano in his illegal offshore online casino betting operation. The arrests have been in place for some time now and more recently, Giordano finally entered a guilty plea to the crime of promoting gambling in the US.

Giordano’s sentencing really could have been a lot worse; in most cases it is much worse with the online casinos acting as a part of the equation – the US government does not often show mercy and understanding. In this case, Giordano was given a five month jail term and he agreed to forfeit one million dollars. But as an indication of the US government’s more understanding position on the issue, Giordano was able to keep his home and his jail term could have been so much worse if you look at the BetonSports case as any indication of possible jail situations and sentencing.