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Alarming New Step

The United States has taken a big leap toward the negative this week with the announcement that federal authorities are filing charges against a US online casino gambler because he refuses to disclose information regarding which sites he uses for gambling purposes. The fact that Nicholas Zicarelli is facing jail time for contempt of court charges is really alarming for anyone who has regularly followed the US’s evolving policies regarding offshore online casinos. Transactions with Internet gambling companies is illegal in the US, but the UIGEA has always tolerated because there were no negative penalties for the actual US internet gamblers accessing the sites. But that is no longer the case and US authorities have announced they are prepared to prosecute and hold in contempt of court any US citizens who use their Fifth Amendment rights to abstain from snitching on their chosen gambling companies.

This is a very first for the US government and it’s pretty alarming. Most industry analysts honestly believed that it would not come to this, that the UIGEA did not provide the government with the right to prosecute and punish individual US gamblers. The courts upheld that the US authorities cannot actually prosecute the gambler, but they did not protect Zicarelli from contempt charges. This latest campaign to force US online casino gamblers to reveal their bookmakers comes from US Attorney Paul Becker, and his actions have really infuriated some tax payers.

What it comes down to is levels of tolerance. The US citizens have long asked for new online casino gambling legislation, and that has not happened. And though supporters of an open US gambling industry are outspoken, they have not adamantly pursued their issue. But there is every likelihood that the US citizens will now massively revolt if more efforts are put into arresting and charging innocent citizens for the online gambling habits.