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So, What are They Gonna Do?

The United States Department of Justice doesn’t seem to be winning its ongoing efforts to block offshore online casinos from operating in the market and is doubly not even winning internal efforts to eliminate state internet gambling. The UIGEA controversially bans offshore gambling and that has stuck in the craw in many international gambling groups. But what is really angering foreign companies is the new trend in the US toward US states operating legalized intrastate internet gambling – and the US DoJ is doing nothing to stop the action! The state of Illinois is the first state to controversially extend its land betting industry into the internet arena, and although there was a lot of concern, the US DoJ has not forced the state government to stop the now operating state internet gambling industry.

This has led several other US states to begin aggressively planning their own entry into the US online casino gambling industry on a state level. Maine, Florida, and California are all three strongly considering legalizing a state internet poker industry as a way to infuse more money into the lagging state budget. And there are arguments that the legalization of internet poker is likely ok because it is not a form of chance gambling like the online casinos. So that was widely accepted as the reason that the US DoJ hasn’t made a move to stop the state governments from legalizing forms of internet gambling.

Then you hear word that the state of New Jersey is considering fully legalizing state online casinos, and the situation just gets more absurd. And again, the US DoJ has not made any attempts to stop this from happening…which makes one wonder if they have the power to stop it. The UIGEA is controversially flawed, and perhaps one of those key flaws is the fact that it does not outline the extent to which internet gambling is illegal in the US market – all gambling, or just offshore? That’s surely a pertinent question.