Web designers and hosts charged in massive online gambling sting

More than two dozen individuals and corporations in four states have been charged in connection with a billion-dollar-a-year gambling Web site.

One of the corporations is an offshore Internet company with an American counterpart, said Kevin Ryan, a spokesman for Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.

Ryan said the case is "one of the first times that a Web designer corporation and the companies that maintain the websites have been charged." He says, "we have initiated a $500 million asset forfeiture case," one of the largest in state history.

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