Two indictments filed by the U.S. Attorney in Baltimore, Rod Rosentein, were unsealed on Monday that charged a Canadian company, ThrillX Systems, and a Cyprus company, K23 Group, with operating illegal gambling businesses and money laundering.

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Allied Veterans was founded in 1979 and evolved from a charitable organization that ran bingo games and held bake sales for veterans to a group suspected of widespread illegal gambling around Florida, according to an Internal Revenue Service affidavit.

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The Cambodian casino group he founded, NagaCorp, raked in profits as gambling revenue soared.

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Yet despite the squalor, Kirk Kerkorian's MGM Mirage, Steve Wynn, Sheldon Adelson and a partnership of Park Place and Mandalay Resort Group are among the nine finalists angling to win one of three gambling licenses being granted by the Macau government.

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While Anonymous, the vigilante hacking group, has always accepted donation in Bitcoin, more mainstream websites like Reddit and online gambling sites have increasingly begun to accept bitcoin as a means of simplifying their online payment methods.

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