A New York resident has been arrested by New Jersey police for suspicion of running an online sports betting operation for the Lucchese crime organization. Brian R. Cohen has been formally charged with money laundering and operating an illegal online gambling business. Cohen was arrested as he returned to the United States from Costa Rica.

He is now free on $100,000 bail but the judge ordered him to turn over his passport. Over 30 members of the Lucchese family have already been indicted on various charges which includes two top members of the mafia family, Ralph Perna and Nicodermo Scarfo. While online gambling is a grey area of the law within the United States, sports betting is illegal under the Wire Act.

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The US is one of the most awkward countries for online gambling right now. The
federal government continues to threaten prosecution of online gaming companies,
when their is clearly no legal statute that makes online gambling illegal.

On the other hand, local governments are feeling the affects of the financial
crisis and they are beginning to see the opportunity when it comes to legalized
online gambling. New Jersey is crafting legislation to make online gambling
legal and they may end up being the first state in the union to offer it.

While California and Pennsylvania are moving forward on plans to legalize
online gambling, it looks like New Jersey may be the first to pass a bill
that favors online gambling by US citizens. This has been a rather slow
process because each state is looking to see what the others are doing,
and once a state legalizes online gambling, one can expect that many
of the other states with financial problems will soon follow suit.

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