Calvin Ayre: Bodog

Federal Prosecutors Dept: BALTIMORE - The sports gambling site Bodog has been shut down and four Canadians have been indicted, including founder Calvin Ayre, for illegal gambling that generated more than $100 million in winnings, U.S. federal prosecutors announced Tuesday, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Ayre, who's originally from Lloydminster, Sask., posted a statement on his website Tuesday saying that his company did not take bets in the U.S, where financial transactions involving online gambling service providers are illegal and bodog gambling founder Calvin Ayre poses for a photograph after an interview in his hotel room on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 in Toronto. The sports gambling site Bodog was shut down and four Canadians indicted, including Ayre, for illegal gambling that generated more than $100 million in winnings, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette The website's domain name was seized Monday and the indictments, which were handed down Feb. 22, were unveiled Tuesday in Baltimore, prosecutors said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.