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The Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board announced the release of a joint final rule to implement the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The Act prohibits gambling businesses from knowingly accepting payments in connection with unlawful Internet gambling, including payments made through credit cards, electronic funds transfers, and checks. The [...]

A recent lobbyist for the National Football League who now works at the White House is playing a controversial role in the Bush administration’s last-minute effort to implement a ban on many forms of Internet gambling before the end of the president’s term, according to congressional and administration sources. William Wichterman, who with others at [...]

Alongside Barney Frank, who released a similar statement, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., has written a letter to White House counsel Fred Fielding complaining that it appears the Bush Administration wants to finalize federal rules against Internet gambling before it leaves office. Cohen, a proponent of the Internet gambling that Congress banned in 2006, also [...]