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Tuesday 4 June 2019
Judge: Federal

wagering law

only applies to

sports gambling

By MICHAEL CASEY operations and could cost
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A the state more than $90
federal judge ruled Mon- million a year.
day that a law prohibiting Data gathered by The As-
interstate wagering applies sociated Press shows states
only to sports gambling, would have been at risk
setting aside a Justice of losing $220 million in net
Department opinion that profits annually if the Justice
some states feared would Department had targeted
make online lottery activi- single tickets sold online or In this Aug. 22, 2017 file photo signs display lottery prizes in Chicago.
ties including Powerball il- more than $23 billion under Associated Press
legal and put the programs the broadest interpretation
they fund at risk. that would have prohibited Hampshire stood up, took lard, Interactive, which op- pretation of the Wire Act,
Judge Paul Barbadoro's rul- all lottery-related activities action, and won — all to erates the state's online lot- this ruling has nationwide
ing comes in response to a that use the internet, in- protect public education tery, said the ruling will not impact," he said in a state-
suit filed by the New Hamp- cluding popular games like in our state." be limited to New Hamp- ment. "Throughout the
shire Lottery Commission in Powerball. A spokesman for the Jus- shire. Michigan, New Jer- country, state lotteries and
February, which said a Jus- "Today's ruling is a histor- tice Department said it "is sey and Pennsylvania filed others in the gaming indus-
tice Department opinion ic victory for the State of reviewing the decision and friend-of-the court briefs in try once again can rely on
issued last year subjects its New Hampshire and we declines to comment fur- this case. the Justice Department's
employees to prosecution, are proud to have led this ther at this time." "Because the court 'set 2011 opinion that the Wire
creates uncertainty about effort," Gov. Chris Sununu Matthew D. McGill, who aside' the Justice Depart- Act is limited to sports
whether it should cease said in a statement. "New represented the NeoPol- ment's incorrect re-inter- betting."q

Businessman named in Mueller probe faces child porn charge

By MATTHEW BARAKAT ing as an adviser to the The affidavit states that
Associated Press United Arab Emirates, a the search warrant, which
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A close Saudi ally — wired remains under seal, was in
Lebanese-American busi- $2.5 million to a top Trump connection with "another
nessman who worked to fundraiser, Elliott Broidy, matter" unconnected to
advance Saudi Arabia's through a company in child pornography.
agenda to the Trump ad- Canada, The Associated The videos described in
ministration and who later Press reported last year. the affidavit show sexual
provided grand jury testi- The goal was to persuade contact involving animals,
mony to special counsel the U.S. to take a hard line as well as videos in which
Robert Mueller about his against Qatar, a longtime children as young as 3 are
efforts to connect a Rus- American ally but now a shown enduring painful
sian banker to members of bitter adversary of the UAE. abuse.
Trump's transition team has Magistrate Judge Cheryl Joshua Stueve, spokesman
been arrested on charges This 1998 frame from video provided by C-SPAN shows George Pollak on Monday ordered for the U.S. Attorney in the
of transporting a dozen im- Nader, president and editor of Middle East Insight. Nader detained overnight Eastern District of Virginia,
ages of child pornography Associated Press after a federal prosecutor declined to comment on
and bestiality. argued that he was a dan- whether the investigation
Federal prosecutors in the Dmitriev, a Russian banker A second meeting oc- ger to the community and of Nader spun off from
Eastern District of Virginia close to President Vladimir curred a month later in the a risk of flight. A bail hear- Mueller's investigation.
announced that George Putin, to have Nader serve Indian Ocean archipelago ing for Nader is expected Calls to attorneys who rep-
Nader, 60, was arrested as a conduit between him of Seychelles and involved to resume Tuesday after- resented Nader in con-
Monday morning at John and members of Trump's Nader, bin Zayed, former noon. nection with his grand jury
F. Kennedy International transition team. Blackwater boss Erik Prince An affidavit filed in support testimony were not imme-
Airport in New York. Nader's testimony to the and Dmitriev. of the child porn charges diately returned Monday.
The charges were initially grand jury came after he According to the Mueller against Nader says investi- Nader pleaded guilty to
filed in April 2018 but were attended a December report, Dmitriev expressed gators found 12 separate an identical charge in Vir-
not made public until his 2016 meeting at New York's disappointment to Nad- videos after his phones ginia in 1991. He was also
arrest. Trump Tower with presiden- er about the Seychelles were seized in January convicted in the Czech
Nader's name shows up tial son-in-law Jared Kush- meeting because he did 2018 at Dulles International Republic by Prague's Mu-
more than 100 times in ner, former chief strategist not consider Prince to be Airport in Virginia in con- nicipal Court of 10 cases
Mueller's recently released Steve Bannon and Mo- an influential member of nection with a search war- of sexually abusing minors
report. The report de- hammed bin Zayed, crown the Trump team. rant, after he arrived on a and sentenced to a one-
scribes efforts by and Kirill prince of Abu Dhabi. In April 2017 Nader — work- flight from Dubai. year prison term in 2003.q