Anti-gambling bill unlikely to stop many U.S. bettors

NEW YORK — Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a new Internet gambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them on to overseas payment services out of the law’s reach.”It has put a terrible scare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law at Whittier Law School. “But it won’t by any means wipe out Internet gambling.”The fright swept through the $12 billion industry on the heels of the recent arrests of two gambling company executives and a n

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