The Tribune

By KHRISNA VIRGIL

Tribune Staff Reporter

kvirgil@tribunemedia.net

CANTOR Gaming, the organisation partnering with Atlantis for mobile sports betting, has denied that its chief is at the centre of US federal investigations.

Yesterday, in an email to The Tribune, the company insisted that Cantor and its CEO Lee Amaitis are not being investigated on suspicion of accepting illegal bets as claimed in a report in the Wall Street Journal last week.

In the short statement, Cantor spokesperson Hannah Sloane said: “We feel compelled to address this irresponsible and baseless rumour.

“The notion that Lee Amaitis is a target of federal prosecutors or that he participated in illegal bookmaking is baseless and false.”

The report, published on October 3, 2013, said that the claims against Amaitis, Cantor’s founder, came to light after his colleague Michael Colbert pleaded guilty to knowingly accepting illegal wagers.

Prosecutors in New York filed charges back in August claiming that Colbert had knowledge that he was accepting bets from an illegal gambling ring.

The FNM, which raised the issue on Wednesday, have questioned whether the government and the Gaming Board launched their own investigations into the matter following the claims in the Wall Street Journal.

Last week, Atlantis officially opened 6,860 square foot race and sports betting operation with Cantor as its partner.