Peter Dicks, chairman of Sportingbet, an online gambling site that allows gambling on casino games as well as sports wagering, was arrested in New York on a Louisiana warrant Wednesday night. The arrest comes two months after then CEO David Carruthers of BetOnSports was arrested on a flight layover at Dallas-Fort Worth airport. U.S. government officials claim that it is illegal to operate an online casino or sports wagering operation that allows people within the United States to gamble. In the past, officials had seemingly looked the other way as online gambling grew in the U.S., but the two arrests this summer of online gaming executives seem to indicate that a crackdown may be under way.
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