It’s cutting things rather fine online casinos, but hopes remain that Congressman Barney Frank’s bid to regulate online gambling in the United States – Bill HR 2267 – will be heard before the current session of Congress closes.

This week the sixty-first sponsor of the bill, US Representative from the 1st Congressional District of Connecticut, John B. Larson, signed up as a supporter of the bill.

Larson’s support follows the latest behind-the-scenes moves which saw 20 politicians on Capitol Hill writing to the Federal Reserve governor and the US Treasury urging them to delay the final implementation of the Unlawful internet gambling Enforcement Act regulations on December 1st until there has been an opportunity to debate and resolve problems already being experienced by financial institutions charged with enforcing the Act.

The ban on casino gambling in the Ukraine, which has followed similarly draconian moves by the Russian government, has seriously damaged the industry in that country, but internet gambling operators are finding Internet-based workarounds in order to survive.

The idea is not new; following the implementation of the Russian ban in July this year, gambling operators in that country found new ways to continue offering what are reported to be popular online gambling facilities.

The Kyiv Post reported this week that operators are increasingly turning to the Internet, using servers outside the Ukraine, to continue offering their services to Ukrainians.

However, there are fears that thwarting the government ban may result in further legislation being passed which might emulate moves elsewhere in the world to either attack the financial structures underpinning Internet transactions, or even impose ISP blocks.

Either way, it appears that further legislative fireworks are likely in Eastern Europe, where some nations have embraced Internet gambling but others take a contrary view.

Andreas Oscarsson, the hugely successful 36-year-old who reportedly made a fortune from affiliate marketing and the information casino gambling site in the online poker sector, was possibly murdered by a professional hitman, his father disclosed in a Swedish television interview recently.

Appearing in an interview in order to encourage persons with knowledge of the murder two months ago to come forward, Oscarsson’s father said that he had been told by police that six shots were fired from a silenced gun to kill his son. He has no idea who may have been behind the murder, which took online casinos place at the family home at Skoftebyns in Trollhättan, Sweden on August 3rd.

Police are still investigating the murder.