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Florida Lawmakers Want To Shut Down Internet Cafes

Mben

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Florida's internet cafes have skirted around ambiguous laws until now.FL State's lieutenant governor, Jennifer Carroll, has resigned and 57 other people have been arrested for money laundering and raketeering in the wake of a massive fraud investigation.Allied Veterans of the World is the non-profit operation at the center of this investigation. Carroll's public relations company worked with Allied Veterans when she was a House member in 2009-10. She resigned Tuesday after being questioned by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, though she has not been charged Internet cafes sell phone cards or internet access that customers can use on-premises, often to gamble online, playing electronic slot machines or poker, among other games. Winnings and losses are recorded on an access card, which can be cashed out when a player leaves an establishment.Many city and county governments, including sheriffs, have called them storefront casinos, but pleas for statewide regulation have gone unheeded.That changed on Wednesday when Republican leaders, including Senate President Don Gaetz and House Speaker Will Weatherford, rushed to add internet cafe bills to the top of committee agendas.Law enforcement officials alleged that Allied Veterans earned about $300 million over a four-year period while it served as a front for illegal gambling. The Oklahoma-based organization spent around $2 million on political donations over the same period.Police shuttered 49 cafes in the sweep of arrests on Tuesday.Republican Senator John Thrasher has already proposed a bill that would have stopped licensing of any more internet cafes. It is set for a hearing on Monday in the Senate Gaming Committee and is expected to be amended before then to outlaw the cafes.<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-usa-florida-lieutenantgovernor-idUSBRE92D1BL20130314" >source</a><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-usa-florida-lieutenantgovernor-idUSBRE92D1BL20130314" ></a>
 

Mben

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Moving right along, the ban on internet cafes in FL looks like it will become law soon.Read <a href="http://www.gambling911.com/gambling-news/no-more-internet-cafes-florida-following-gambling-arrests-senate-ok-031813.html" >here</a>. 
 

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