By Jordan Fenster Register Staff jfenster@nhregister.com A U.S. Department of Justice ruling appears to open the door for legal, state-sanctioned online gambling, but for Connecticut to get a piece of the Internet gaming pie, state laws and court-ordered agreements must change.
LAS VEGAS - The fight to fully legalize online gambling in the U.S. is now less about whether Americans will be able to play and more about who will bring the action to them - and when. A recent U.S. Justice Department opinion opened the door for cash- strapped states and their lotteries to bring online gambling to their residents, as long as it does not involve sports betting.
A Department of Justice legal opinion that clears the way for states to offer lottery services and gambling over the Internet reinforces the District's efforts to introduce poker and other games, but may threaten the city's status as a first-in-the-nation pioneer in the industry. Nevada, a state that knows a thing or two about gambling, shored up its role as a front-runner by issuing regulations for an online- poker program a day before the DOJ's opinion made the rounds on Friday.
Who wants to bet that the recent federal crackdown on Internet poker sites won't stop Americans from playing poker online for money? Federal agents seized the websites of three of the world's most popular online poker companies, indicted 11 of their executives and associates and filed a lawsuit seeking at least $3 billion in penalties. It was the most extensive enforcement action taken since Congress enacted a law in 2006 to prohibit banks, credit-card companies and others in the financial industry from processing online gambling transactions.
Last week, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and the FBI announced the indictment of 11 defendants (including the founders of three large Internet poker sites) with bank fraud, money laundering and illegal gambling offenses. Civil money laundering charges were also filed against the popular online poker sites PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker in the case of United States v. Scheinberg, et al.
SPRINGFIELD - Illinois is not alone in the rush to expand legalized gambling to the Internet. According to U.S. Internet Gambling Regulatory Tracker, nine other states are reviewing legislation dealing with Internet poker and online casino gambling.
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