Internet Sports Gambler Arrested and Fined?

DavidMatthews · Aug 13, 2003

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> Man fined for 'Net gambling

FARGO, N.D. -- A former Harwood man has pleaded guilty to placing sports bets over the Internet, in what one gambling law specialist says is a rare case.

Jeffrey Trauman pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge in East Central District Court in Fargo on Monday. Judge Norman Backes gave him a one-year deferred sentence and fined him $500.

I. Nelson Rose, a professor at Whittier Law School in California who has studied gambling law for 23 years, said about half the states still have laws against gambling.

The North Dakota attorney general's office said it began investigating Trauman last spring, after receiving a tip.

Trauman, who currently lives in Kentucky, declined comment.

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Link to story: http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/gaming/2003/aug/12/515466833.html

Anyone know anything about this?

David

DavidMatthews · Aug 13, 2003

Yes, No, Maybe??

This is the first instance I have heard of an online player being arrested and fined so I am very interested on what this is all about.

David

Amitightornot · Aug 13, 2003

There is a topic about ti across the street. This guy actually posted in that topic

go across the street do a search for arrest/arrested

ESPNROCKS999 · Aug 13, 2003

That's good to know. Thanks

TheGeneral+ · Aug 16, 2003

Better try to keep friends and not enemies if you are doing something illegal. With the legislation, local law enforcement may try to look like heros by nabbing a few.

Snitches will usually be the cause.

Keep your business to yourself.

oldmantime · Aug 16, 2003

General and anyone: IF Congress passes an a law that says the ACT of placing am online wager is illegal, they will have MANY ways to find out WHO is doing it. Besides, the very simply ways of checking accts, WU records, etc; the first t way that comes to mind would be to get records from places like the RX, which show that UNIQUE computer address #. (That in itself may not be actual proof, but would make for EASY pickings to FIND folks). So, as much as I love this website, I think the readership will drop significantly IF Congress passes an act punishing the player!)

DellDude · Aug 16, 2003

If I won the Big One, I'd email a link to the thread or threads documenting it from start to finish to every legal controlling authority in the United States. I'd tell those MF'ers to bring it on!

lander · Aug 16, 2003

Dell,
Speaking of rats - What ever happened with that whole ordeal Butch was putting you through?

DellDude · Aug 16, 2003

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by lander:
Dell,
Speaking of rats - What ever happened with that whole ordeal Butch was putting you through?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

He admitted he was making it up. I found out there isn't even a State Attorney's Office in Flint. Believe you me, if what he was saying were true I would have been taken away in handcuffs early this week after what I've done.