Released Official Statement Tells Little But Claim Placed on Assets of $500 Million

It has been reported by the Associated Press that criminal charges of an unspecified nature have been lodged against over two dozen individuals and companies throughout four states in the United States. This is linked with an Internet website generating over a billion dollars a year in gambling activities. This was announced by the District Attorney’s office in Queens New York and it is believed to be associated with earlier reports that are available through Gambling 911’s portal, reports that have not been yet confirmed regarding the arrest and leveling of charges which are being brought against 32 sportsbook agents picked up in a New York raid carried out on Tuesday.

Kevin Ryan who is the District Attorney in Queens New York, has not yet named the involved companies but he did say that one of the involved corporations is an Internet company located offshore that has United States links.

District Attorney Ryan described the case as being one of the first times in which both a Web designing corporation as well as the companies that retain the web sites have been charged together.

Ryan is reported as saying that his office’s arrests and those carried out by the New York Police Department, are the first time that charges for Internet gambling have been brought against companies managing such web sites since the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act was signed into law by President Bush last month.

Those in authority have decided not to identify publicly any of the individuals or companies involved in the arrests.

Ryan described the arrests as taking place throughout four states that have yet to be identified. He described the case as involving the forfeiture of over half a billion dollars in assets, and thus representing one of the largest cases of this type in the history of the state of New York.

Charges were leveled and arrests made only after completion of a two-year international investigation focusing exclusively on gambling on the Internet.

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