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From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon)
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Subject: Re: Texas Space-Travel Entrepreneurs Guilty
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Date: 7 Feb 91 11:13:00 GMT
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John Murray <murray@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> writes:

> The US shortwave station WWCR 7520 KHz just reported at about 5:00 UTC
> 2-7-90 that two gentlemen have been convicted of violation of Texas
> sweepstakes laws due to their 1-900 marketing of a sweepstakes to win
> a crewmember position on a russian space mission.

Justice certainly moves swiftly in Texas. I heard yesterday on KGO
(San Francisco) that these people had just been arrested on charges of
operating an illegal lottery. They were released (or perhaps held in
lieu of) $2000 bail.

Once again, we seem to have conflicting reports on this matter. Just
another example of our super-accurate media at work.

> [Moderator's Note: Not only is it void in NY, FL and RI, it may be
> void everywhere by now if the latest news report is accurate.
> Supposedly the guys running it have been found guilty.  PAT]

And where did your report come from? Are there now at least three
different versions of what happened to these guys? Arrested and guilty
are usually separated by more than one day even on traffic offenses.


        John Higdon         |   P. O. Box 7648   |   +1 408 723 1395
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[Moderator's Note: I say if they're arrested they must be guilty, and
if they're guilty they must be hung immediatly. Of course I am a
Bigoted and Very Biased Immoderate Moderator ... :) Seriously John,
all I know about this is what I read in TELECOM Digest, and my
reputation for lying is not any worse than {Readers Digest}.  I just
went with the original poster's comments ... sorry!  PAT]