wire communication facility การใช้
- _Suspend or seize wire communications facilities.
- Whoever being engaged in the business of betting or wagering knowingly uses a wire communications facility for the transmission of interstate or foreign commerce of bets or wagers . . . on any sporting event or contest . . . shall be fined or imprisoned not more than two years.
- On July 17, 2006 the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri office, citing the Federal Wire Act of 1961, which prohibits the use of a wire communication facility to transmit bets across state or foreign borders, issued a 22 count indictment for Gary Kaplan and eight others, including David Carruthers.