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In America, an influential New Jersey politician has penned a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder declaring that current Federal law does indeed permit individual states to operate intra-state online gambling.
New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak was the man that sought to legalise intra-state online gambling for residents of the eastern state in 2010 via his proposed S490 legislation and his letter was sent in response to correspondence composed last week by United States Senators Jon Kyl and Harry Reid.
In their letter, Republican Kyl and Democrat Reid chastised the Department of Justice for its ‘lack of activity’ in allowing online gambling to ‘spread substantially’ despite the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) of 2006. The pair also expressed concerns over intra-state online gambling and recent efforts by state-sponsored lotteries to launch this activity for their own benefits. The letter asked the Attorney General to clarify whether this form of online gambling is illegal ‘because activity over the Internet inherently crosses state lines, implicating Federal anti-gambling laws such as the Wire Act’.
The letter saw Reid and Kyl relate that ‘several officials from various state lotteries’ had boasted that they had obtained the Department of Justice’s ‘effective consent’ in offering intra-state online gambling by ‘writing letters of their plans that stated that if no objection was received they would proceed with their Internet gambling plans’. The Senators then recounted that no objection had been forthcoming from Holder’s office despite ‘many months or years’.
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New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak was the man that sought to legalise intra-state online gambling for residents of the eastern state in 2010 via his proposed S490 legislation and his letter was sent in response to correspondence composed last week by United States Senators Jon Kyl and Harry Reid.
In their letter, Republican Kyl and Democrat Reid chastised the Department of Justice for its ‘lack of activity’ in allowing online gambling to ‘spread substantially’ despite the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) of 2006. The pair also expressed concerns over intra-state online gambling and recent efforts by state-sponsored lotteries to launch this activity for their own benefits. The letter asked the Attorney General to clarify whether this form of online gambling is illegal ‘because activity over the Internet inherently crosses state lines, implicating Federal anti-gambling laws such as the Wire Act’.
The letter saw Reid and Kyl relate that ‘several officials from various state lotteries’ had boasted that they had obtained the Department of Justice’s ‘effective consent’ in offering intra-state online gambling by ‘writing letters of their plans that stated that if no objection was received they would proceed with their Internet gambling plans’. The Senators then recounted that no objection had been forthcoming from Holder’s office despite ‘many months or years’.
Read entire article here.
