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Wrongly Focused

The US Department of Justice is pretty busy these past couple of years preoccupied with the prosecution of companies that violate the US Wire Act and the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). These two acts together make it currently and for the whole of the past illegal for companies to operate online casinos for the US market. The UIGEA though is fairly new (just under three years old) and is highly flawed according to most analysts, experts, and a growing number of politicians. The easy fact of the situation indicate that the US’s ban on offshore gaming companies has been hugely unsuccessful because there is no way for the government to completely and effectively stop the processing of financial transactions with offshore online casino sites.

The DoJ has also brought in a pretty chunk of money over the past couple of years from online casino gambling businesses that have rather paid the money to the government than go through a lengthy trial process. The DoJ is quite preoccupied with this specific industry, the online casinos and internet gambling companies, and there is a fear that the Department is overlooking other sectors of the market that could be potentially quite important.

The DoJ focus on the European online casinos has really angered a lot of European companies and the European Union is actually now quite actively involved in negotiating with the US government to stop the DoJ from continuing efforts against EU companies. Another key focus over the past several years has been on the BetonSports debacle; luckily that situation is finding resolution slowly but surely and one of the cases is actually in the sentencing phase.