US Legislation

  • Is This Legal?4

    As the football season approaches we had several requests to clarify the legality of betting online with an offshore bookmaker. The bottom line on the million dollar question of “Is this legal”, is no – according to the Catherine Hanaway, US Attorney in St. Louis, Missouri. She testified this past winter in front of the

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  • Obama Contest – Illegal Gambling?4

    Earlier this week, the head of the Minnesota Gambling Control Board stated that Barack Obama’s website may be running an illegal raffle. The ‘illegal’ raffle seeks a donation of $5 or more between now and midnight on July 31st, and “you could be one of 10 supporters chosen to meet Barack backstage and watch his

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  • Town Meeting from a Gaming Supporter1

    One of the top supporters for Internet Gambling and one of our favorite Congressman is Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL 19th). He introduced H.R.2610 to amend current laws to clarify the applicability of such laws to games of skill. This is commonly referred to in gaming circles as “Wexler’s Poker Bill.” In addition, the representative from

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  • State Gambling on the Move5

    This week we added an update box on the OSGA homepage so that visitors could see the movement on ANY of the Internet gambling legislation currently introduced in the House of Representatives. This area is updated as each new co-sponsor of one of these bills is added. However, this is only for Federal bills. In

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  • BETonSPORTS Players Brace for More Bad News9

    We have reports that players from beleaguered and bankrupt sportsbook giant BETonSPORTS are begin contacted again. This time the email comes from Vantis, a forensic accounting firm in England that has been appointed receiver and liquidator of the now defunct sportsbook. We were given an advance copy of this email yesterday and have been working

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  • Representatives Step Up to Support Latest Frank Initiative0

    The champion of online freedoms, Rep. Barney Frank has introduced some legislation that basically makes the UIGEA unenforceable. H.R.5767: ‘To prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from proposing, prescribing, or implementing any regulation under subchapter IV of chapter 53 of title 31, United States Code,

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