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The Cheaters
A 60-Minutes, Washington Post joint investigation found that a small group of people managed to cheat players out of more than 20 million dollars. And that no law enforcement agency in the world is pursing the case. Both playing and running an online gambling Web site is considered illegal in the United States. Than ban is almost impossible to enforce; the sites and the computers that run them are located offshore beyond U.S. jurisdiction.
Tags: internet gambling; poker; cheating; Absolute Poker; Mohawk nation; computer servers; scam; Ultimate Bet;
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Rescuing the River
A Journal News investigative series reports on the Environmental Protection Agency's $460-million plan "to perform the largest environmental dredging project in the nation's history on a 40-mile section of the Upper Hudson River." The river was contaminated with PCBs, deadly chemicals that have been dumped in the water by General Electric for decades. The toxins destroyed fishing and tainted a Mohawk reservation. The stories question the cost and effectiveness of the dredging plan, which "might not remove PCBs from the river but it would destroy marshes...." The investigation documents the GE high-dollar lobbying and advertising efforts in favor of the argument that "the river will clean itself."
Tags: environment; FOI requests; rivers; Congress; legislature; Sen. Hillary Clinton; hazardous waste; Hudson River Superfund; National Academy of Sciences; lobbyists; public health; contamination; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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GQ reports on the civil war that has engulfed the Mohawk nation of Akwesasne sparked by the issue of gambling; one group saw gambling as economic salvation, others saw it as a violation of Mohawk principal, November 1993. # NY D'Ambrosio
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