\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n“I would revisit it [Wire Act], and I will make a decision on it based on careful study,” Sessions answered. Sessions added that he was “shocked” by the 2011 DOJ opinion.<\/p>\n
Big Business in <\/b>Interactive Slots<\/b><\/h2>\n
Only a handful of states have online gambling with interactive slot machines and table games. These include Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Michigan. But following the most unusual year in which COVID-19 shuttered land-based casinos, the importance of having iGaming in such a pandemic environment became crystal clear.<\/p>\n
Nearly half of all gross gaming revenue (GGR) generated in New Jersey by its Atlantic City casinos in 2020 came via online channels.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nOnline casinos reported a GGR of $931.5 million, more than double the amount they won in 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal is calling on the US Department of Justice (DOJ) to end the years-long legal debate on iGaming in the state’s favor.\u00a0 The Wire Act has long been a subject of controversy in modern technological times. The federal statute was passed by Congress in 1961 and signed into law by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":177568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,60],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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