News > Online Casino Business Busted in Florida
With the UIGEA, or Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, spreading throughout the US like wildfire, a new string of online casino gaming operations have been discovered and charged. Recently, a Florida couple that helped run a US 1.4 billion-a-year online casinos business, pleaded guilty to felony charges in Queens, according to authorities. Daniel Clarin, 32, and his wife, Melissa Clarin, 31, of Miami, entered their guilty pleas, becoming the latest in a series of defendants to admit participating in an online casino operation that processed bets through offshore computer servers.
The judge overseeing the case stated that he was likely to give Daniel Clarin a term of 21/2 to 7 years when he is sentenced in April. Regarding his wife, the sentence is still unknown. Because of the new anti-gambling law regarding online casino gaming in the US, more and more news stories of this nature are popping up throughout the country. Online gambling fans are angry about the US government’s decision to stop online casino gaming, claiming the operators are overseas, and how they spend their own money should not be dictated to them by the government.
Whether or not online casino gaming will become legal and regulated in the US one day is unclear. US online casino fans will simply have to find a way to gamble online without putting themselves at risk of breaking the law. Some continue to gamble online, while others have completely abandoned the pastime. Still, many are hopeful that there will come a day when the US government will overturn the UIGEA and allow online gambling, as do many other countries around the world.
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