- Jay Cohen
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image_size = 150px
name = Jay Cohen
birth_date = 1968
birth_place =California, United States
occupation =Chief Executive Officer
website = [http://www.freejaycohen.com Free Jay Cohen]Jay Cohen (born 1968) was the cofounder and
CEO ofWorld Sports Exchange (WSEX), anonline gambling company from 1996 untilJuly 24 , 2000, when he was the first United States citizen to be convicted in US Federal Court for violation of theFederal Wire Act for operating an online gambling company from a jurisdiction where it was legal and regulated. [ [http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/08/biztech/articles/11gambling.html New York Times: Man Jailed in First U.S. Online Gambling Conviction] ]As of August 2006, Cohen remains the only executive of a legally licensed (in Cohen's case,
Antigua ) Internet gambling company that has been convicted of violatingUnited States law.David Carruthers ofBetonSports andPeter Dicks of Sportingbet PLC are each awaiting separate trials on similar charges, although both men are citizens of theUnited Kingdom while Cohen is an American citizen.Cohen's case was appealed to the
United States Supreme Court , but it refused to hear the appeal. [ [http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/gaming/2002/jun/21/062110471.html Las Vegas Sun: Justices decide not to hear the appeal of Jay Cohen] ] He was released in March 2004. [ [http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/sun/2004/mar/23/516573962.html Las Vegas Sun: 'Net gaming operator Cohen freed from prison] ]ee also
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David Carruthers
*Gary Kaplan
*Peter Dicks
*Neteller
*Nigel Payne
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