AGA chief sees little hope for Internet gaming legislation in Congress

Las Vegas Review-Journal – Geoff Freeman didn’t shy away from wading into the Internet gaming debate. At his first Global Gaming Expo as CEO of the American Gaming Association, Freeman said Tuesday that the Washington, D.C.-based organization would step up the effort for federal passage of online gaming legislation, although he didn’t hold out much hope of the issue gaining any traction in Congress. “Anyone who has been to Washington recently knows that the environment for getting a bill done is not there,” Freeman said during a media briefing before the opening of the G2E at the Sands Expo and…