According to McAfee’s Jackpot! Money Laundering Through Online Gambling whitepaper, online casino operators are fuelling the increase in cybercrime by making it easy to cash in on crimes.

We need to have a debate about whether we really want a full casino attached to every smartphone in America. With the wave of the executive branch magic wand, unfettered Internet gambling could soon be imposed on all 50 states. When the Department of Justice (DOJ) unilaterally reinterpreted the 1961 Wire Act in December 2011, […]

After betting on blue-sky numbers—and badly overplaying its hand—New Jersey’s online-gambling industry is trying to regroup. In recent weeks, casinos have doubled down on advertising, plastering buses, train platforms and billboards and bombarding radio and TV airwaves. Companies are building smartphone applications, hoping people will play poker on the fly. And they are working to […]

Successful gambling, as the Kenny Rogers song says, requires participants to “know when to hold ‘em, know when to fold ‘em, know when to walk away and know when to run.” It’s the last clause of those lyrics that states mulling a foray into online gambling might be well advised to heed in light of […]

On behalf of the National Association of Convenience Stores (NACS), I’m writing to convey our industry’s strong support for your legislation, the Restoration of America’s Wire Act. This issue is of vital importance to NACS members.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) recently introduced bipartisan legislation, the Restoration of America’s Wire Act — S. 2159 in the Senate and H.R. 4301 in the House — that seeks to restore the long-standing interpretation of the Wire Act and reverses the Department of Justice’s abrupt December 2011 […]