Online Gambling (If Now Legal) May Be Big in 2012

Is online gambling legal? This is the question everyone is asking in light of a recently released Department of Justice opinion . New York and Illinois had asked the Office of Legal Counsel to clarify the Wire Act of 1961, which purportedly bans all online gambling. According to the new opinion, however, that’s not true.

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