A New York judge refused to stop subpoenas from the state inspector general seeking state Senate information about the awarding of a lucrative video slot machine contract for Aqueduct racetrack to a politically connected group. See the story.Late last autumn, a Hong Kong jury convicted four men of a conspiracy to commit bodily harm and a fifth of soliciting a murder. The men had been ordered to break the arms and legs of a dealer at Sands Macau suspected of helping a patron cheat millions of dollars from the business.

Later, a call went out to murder the dealer, court records show. But then one of the gangsters balked and reported the plans to authorities. (Editorial note: this is a very in-depth story reported by Reuters, recommended reading for casino surveillance and all other personnel and gaming regulation personnel.) See the story A U.S. District judge sent a Pennsylvania man convicted in a major credit card scam at Foxwoods Resort Casino back to prison after surveillance staff captured recent video of him at both of the region’s casinos. See the story THREE foreign nationals, caught cheating at the roulette tables of Resorts World Sentosa’s casino, were arrested in Singapore. The trio – a Spaniard and two Frenchmen, between the ages of 46 and 64 – almost made off with $13,400 in winnings.
Their scam was a standard past-post on roulette. See the story A woman claims that a Harrah’s night club boss attempted to ply her with alcohol and coerce her to provide companionship to several men at the club when she interviewed for a job. She and a friend of a worker have joined 13 others who filed suit against the manager and the casino, alleging harassment. Harrah’s insisted it fired the manager once an investigation found evidence of inappropriate behavior.

See the story A team of masked thieves burst into a crowded French casino, fired their assault rifles into the ceiling and made off with nearly $39,000. The headquarters of the international police agency Interpol are just down the street. It was the third high-profile casino robbery in Europe recently. The other two were in Switzerland and Germany. See the story A U.S. District judge sentenced a former Mohegan Sun table games dealer to two months in federal prison and three years’ supervised release for participating in a card cheating scam operated by the Sand Diego-based Tran Organization.

This is one of the latest in the long, involved story of the Tran organization. Twenty of the team members and other involved people have been convicted or pled guilty. See the story Two New Jersey casinos have been hit with separate $10,000 fines by state gaming regulators, while three casinos forfeited more than $3,200 they collected from 117 underage gamblers. The Casino Control Commission fined Bally’s Atlantic City and Caesars Atlantic City for failing to exclude a gambler who put himself on the state’s self-exclusion list in 2003. The person was able to gamble several times in 2005 and 2006, losing $48,562 at Bally’s and $38,759 at Caesars. See the story Online poker houses that were owed tens of millions of dollars by internet tycoon Daniel Tzvetkoff turned him in to US authorities. Mr Tzvetkoff, 27, who at his peak was worth about $80 million, will apply for bail in the US this week after he was arrested on Friday and charged with money laundering of up to $600 million. He is charged with money laundering, money laundering conspiracy, gambling conspiracy and bank fraud conspiracy and faces 75 years in a US prison if convicted. See the story

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