{"id":548842,"date":"2006-05-18T11:59:51","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T11:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548842-us-swoops-on-internet-gamblers.html"},"modified":"2006-05-18T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T11:59:51","slug":"us-swoops-on-internet-gamblers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548842-us-swoops-on-internet-gamblers.html","title":{"rendered":"US swoops on Internet gamblers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The indictment unsealed in Washington this week against the operators of WorldWide Telesports, Inc. charges two companies and two individuals with violation of US money-laundering laws, the Justice Department said in a statement. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;This indictment underscores the Justice Department&#8217;s commitment to attacking illegal Internet gambling concerns by using federal anti-money laundering laws,&quot; the agency said in a statement. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Charged in the indictment, filed in April 2005 and unsealed on Tuesday, were 65-year-old William Scott, who renounced his US citizenship and had been living in the tiny Caribbean nation of\u00a0 Antigua and Barbuda; and Jessica Davis Dyett, a 35-year-old US citizen alleged to have authority over various bank accounts of the operation. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Both are fugitives, according to the Justice Department, which\u00a0 noted they were indicted on similar charges in 1998. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">Inet-Bridge<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><em \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two operators of an Antigua-based Internet gambling site have been indicted on US  charges of money-laundering involving some 250 million dollars of  wagers, officials announce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}