Soon after the new online gambling policy was announced, observers noted that the 2019 opinion by the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) contained suspicious language. presidential elections, the adoption of his pet cause by the Justice Department struck many iGaming advocates as suspicious. Since Adelson was the largest single donor to the Republican Party in the 20 U.S.
online casinos and poker sites have accused Las Vegas Sands CEO Sheldon Adelson of calling in political favors with the Trump administration to change federal laws. Department of Justice announced in January 2019 that all forms of interstate online gambling are illegal, reversing a longstanding department opinion.
