It’s been several weeks since the DOJ Wire Act opinion changed and threatened online gambling, poker and sports betting. Suspicion was that casino mogul (and Republican mega-donor) Sheldon Adelson had a lot to do with the Justice Department decision… and now we know for sure!

Plus, now that the connections between Adelson and the DOJ have come to light, state Attorney Generals from New Jersey and Pennsylvania are starting to take action.

As the gaming and legal worlds have had time to absorb the new opinion on the Wire Act issued by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), the harsh criticisms of said opinion have started to fly. One of the latest comes from Peter J. Ferrara, former associate deputy attorney general in the George H.W. Bush administration, in the form of an op-ed in the USA Today.

The OLC’s reversal of the previous Wire Act opinion, Ferrara says, is the most “corrupt, unethical and legally bankrupt” decision he has ever seen the United States Justice Department make. From the moment the OLC, then a part of the Obama Justice Department, issued its opinion on the Wire Act in 2011 in which it said that it only made interstate sports betting illegal, Las Vegas Sands CEO and Republican king maker Sheldon Adelson spring into action, making it his mission to end online gambling in the United States.

He has claimed the DOJ Wire Act Opinion is to protect children and vulnerable gamblers, but everyone knows it is because he sees online gambling as a threat to his brick-and-mortar gambling empire. More gambling videos are available on our YouTube channel.