A 1953 New Mexico State Police investigation found further that Kemper Marley was a financial backer for bookmakers and had connections with Baldwin and with the bookmaking operations of organized crime, a conclusion echoed decades later by the Arizona Project investigative reporting team.
Journalists told officials about speculation that an Australian player was having financial dealings with bookmakers, after Mark Ray of the Sunday Age received an anonymous letter alleging that Waugh and Warne were being paid by a bookmaker for information.
ROBIN BIRLEY, the Old Etonian millionaire nightclub owner, has emerged as a surprise financial backer of David Davis, the bookmakers' favourite to be the next Tory leader.
Philip Bowcock – the bookmaker's chief financial officer who joined eight months ago – has been appointed interim chief executive until a replacement for Henderson is found.
Lance Pugmire of The Los Angeles Times: The result is what one Las Vegas sports bookmaker called a "staggering" financial hit from the N.F.L. regular season, as bettors handed Nevada sports books their worst year in memory.
New opinion polls and a shift in bookmakers' odds prompted an abrupt change in financial market sentiment, catching some investors off-guard, said Jasper Lawler, an analyst at the spread betting and financial trading site CMC Markets.
Instead, today's problem gamblers are channeled by illegal bookmakers into ever-higher losses, and their mounting financial pressures sometimes lead to criminal conduct.
If punters really are being turned off by racing, as bookmakers like to state, whenever the question of financial support comes around, then they are hardly going to be brought back by anything that produces a greater number of amended results.
Few bookmakers are listing the best adapted screenplay prize, for which Adam McKay and Charles Randolph's script for financial crisis drama The Big Short is expected to be a frontrunner.
But back in 1936 even he may not have foreseen the evolution of financial spread betting which involves gambling on the price movements of shares and other assets.Invented by a Chicago bookmaker to gamble on sports scores in the 1940s, spread betting found a niche in 1970s Britain as a way to speculate on financial markets without paying capital-gains tax.
