casino.org - Senators Appeal to DoJ for Reinterpretation of Wire Act
AUGUST 03, 2014 BY SAMANTHA BECKETT
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Three US senators have written to Attorney General Eric Holder, appealing to him to support the Restoration of America’s Wire Act. The bill, introduced earlier this year, seeks to outlaw all forms of online gambling at a federal level by adopting a previous interpretation of US gambling law. The Federal Wire Act of 1961, which was created as a means to stop organized crime from trafficking, failed to predict of the advent of the Internet age, and so leaves a lot to interpretation as to how it relates to online gambling.
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Senator Lindsey Graham, along with Diane Feinstein and Kelly Ayotte, believe that online poker is “bound to” prey on children and society’s most vulnerable.
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I guess the tribes better start throwing money at Graham, Feinstein, and Ayotte or else online gambling may become illegal across the entire United States. Or does Tribal Sovereignty Trump the Federal Government's Sovereignty? Be interesting to watch what happens at Santa Ysabel now that they have started offering Online Poker. What will the government do if anything?
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