Online gambling website warned by Connecticut
The New York Racing
Association (NYRA) has received a letter from the Connecticut
Attorney General concerning their online gambling website.
NYRA was the first in the
state of New York to offer legal online betting on their horse
racing events. The Racing Association owns the three of the
state's biggest racing tracks - Aqueduct, Belmont Park and
Saratoga, and offers online gambling on platform developed by he
Manhattan based Sona Mobile Holdings Corp.
The plan provides that NYRA, a
private organization, accepts bets on races broadcast by TVG, an
Internet network. The New York State Racing and Wagering Board
approved the arrangement. A clause in the plan will allow
Internet horse race wagers from Connecticut residents starting
today, according to the Connecticut Attorney General Richard
Blumenthal.
Mr. Blumenthal and the
Division of Special Revenue Executive Director Paul A. Young
today sent letters to the New York Racing Association and New
York gambling regulators demanding that this plan would be
scraped, as online gambling and betting is illegal in
Connecticut.
Although the NYRA Internet
betting website is regulated by the New York gambling board,
Blumenthal was quoted saying: "The New York tracks cannot
trample our vital rights to prohibit Internet gambling - luring
children and compulsive gamblers." He also assured everyone that
legal action will be taken if NYRA does not voluntary stop
Connecticut residents from gambling online.
05/03/2007
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