Howard Stutz’s Nov. 24 column (“Look out, Net bets, Adelson’s after you”) employed a medieval practice used to avoid confronting unpopular positions. When you can’t defend the message, attack the messenger. The truth is I am not alone in my opposition to Internet gambling. While a majority of Americans are in favor of “live” casino […]
When Jim DeFrancesco tried to access New Jersey’s Internet gambling websites last week, the Ship Bottom resident was dismayed to find his credit card would not be accepted for deposits. Likewise, Al Flores was frustrated to find some online gambling websites could not verify his location in South River, Middlesex County, thus blocking him from […]
Internet gambling goes live in New Jersey on Tuesday. It’s the biggest expansion of the casino business in the state since the 1970s. For gamblers with addiction problems, the process of tapping a paycheck and maxing out a credit card has just become infinitely easier. . . . Defenders insist that the casinos will monitor online […]
Sheldon Adelson, the nation’s 11th richest person and chief executive of casino company Las Vegas Sands LVS -0.29%, says he is determined to stop online gambling in America and he will go to great lengths to battle the corporate interests pushing for it. “I am willing to spend whatever it takes,” Adelson said in his […]
A Daily Rundown panel debates the Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson’s push to ban online betting.
In 2006 Congress passed, and President George W. Bush signed, legislation to stop the spread of Internet gambling. At the time, no one was sure whether a law could deter shady offshore operators. But by targeting the money flows and banks that facilitated these businesses, the law worked far better than most people imagined. Until […]