Internet Gambling Attorney Sees Legal Online Gambling Coming To All 50 States

n 2010, British online gambling company Sportingbet PLC (www.sportingbet.com) paid the U.S. government $33 million to settle a prosecution for illegally accepting online wagers for years from U.S. residents.

The landmark settlement, brokered by Sportingbet attorneys Stuart Slotnick and his father, Barry, was viewed as a huge success by the Internet gambling firm because no Sportingbet officials went to prison and the firm was allowed to stay in business and continue offering wagering to the rest of the world.

Most importantly, the $33 million fine was just a fourth of what competitor PartyGaming had to pay in a similar prosecution.

Since the Sportingbet settlement, a lot has happened in the online gambling industry, especially as it pertains to the legal situation in the USA.

In 2010, online gambling wasn't legal in any U.S. state.

Now it is legal in three--Nevada, New Jersey and Delaware--with more likely to come and soon.

So with the industry in such a state of flux, Gambling 911 took the opportunity earlier this week to catch up with Sportingbet attorney and online gambling expert Stuart Slotnick, of the New York law firm Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney PC (www.bipc.com), for his views on where the industry is headed.