North Dakota Tribes Want Exclusive Rights On Online Gambling

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - North Dakota´s five American Indian tribes are seeking exclusive rights to host internet gambling and sports betting in the state, a monopoly worth millions, just a year after legislators turned aside a push by one big national player to allow it in the state.

The proposal comes as Burgum has worked to improve state-tribal relations that have been especially strained since he took office in 2016 in the midst of prolonged protests and hundreds of arrests during the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that passes beneath the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. The tribe draws its water from the Missouri and fears pollution.

Afghanistan, which was 20th in Chainalysis' adoption index last year, has tumbled to the bottom of the list as Taliban authorities have "equated crypto to gambling," which is forbidden in Islam, Chainalysis said.

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The gang led by Alice Diamond was unprecedented in its success and longevity but also in providing an alternative - albeit criminal - career for working class women and girls whose options were usually either to go to work in the factory or be a stay-at-home mother. 

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The tribes are turning to Republican Gov.
Doug Burgum to approve the idea under tribal-state agreements known as compacts, the first of which was signed in 1992. The current compacts expire at the end of this year and only Burgum can approve them, said Deb McDaniel, North Dakota´s top gambling regulator.

As the sister of the notorious gangster, she helped to run his Soho clubs for him when he was jailed in the 1950s for his part in a legendary razor attack on the gangland boss Jack Spot, orchestrated by Soho's Mr Big, Billy Hill.

Billy's long-term girlfriend 'Gypsy', real name Phyllis Riley, acted as a getaway driver on some of his most lucrative robberies during the 1950s, including the Eastcastle Street post office van robbery, which remains unsolved to this day.

Burgum in 2017 signed legislation that approved the electronic pull tab machines, despite opposition from tribes that warned the Las Vegas-style games would lure gamblers away from the state´s tribal-owned casinos.

Americans have bet more than $125 billion on sports with legal gambling outlets in the four years since the U.S. Supreme Court´s 2018 decision that lifted a federal ban on sports gambling, clearing the way for all 50 states to offer it.

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A similar compact between Florida and the Seminole Tribe is tied up in federal court after a judge in November found the multibillion-dollar agreement between the state and tribe allowing online betting violated a federal rule that requires a person to be physically on tribal land when wagering.

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Billy Hill was the Boss of Soho during the 1950s but his women weren't wallflowers either. His first wife, Aggie Sullivan, ran the New Cabinet Club in Soho, pkv poker which acted as an unofficial Labour Exchange for the underworld.

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The only problem was that Billy Hill was cheating on the fearsome Aggie with young woman he'd employed to make sandwiches in one of his gambling dens. Keeping the two women happy - and apart from each other - required more tact than stopping rival factions of warring gangs from spilling blood.

DraftKings, a big player in the U.S. mobile gambling market, supported legislation and a failed resolution last year to allow sports betting in North Dakota to join about two dozen other states.
The company said at the time that sports wagering already is taking place in North Dakota, with an estimated 138,000 people betting more than $355 million in illegal offshore markets annually each year.