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Overseas Internet Gambling Trail Leads Back to Wisconsin17 March 2003WISCONSIN -- As reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: ``On the tiny island of Curacao, 40 miles off the coast of Venezuela, a computer hummed along on Bon Bini Ave. Over the course of three years in the late 1990s, the Caribbean server's Internet connections racked up more than $400 million in sports wagers - on college basketball, professional football and everything in between. The profits lined the pockets of two Americans, one of whom ran the international gambling ring from Nelsonville, Wis., a one-stop-sign town about 15 miles east of Stevens Point. Unbeknown to the two high-tech bookies, an undercover IRS agent was putting his money on the Green Bay Packers. To read the rest of this story please click here |