Sheldon Adelson Losing Early Battles of Anti-Internet Gambling Campaign

Poker News – Sheldon Adelson’s first campaign against online gambling in the new year achieved only moderate success. The Las Vegas Sands CEO’s Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling only managed to get 15 state attorney generals to sign a letter to leaders of Congress requesting that the Wire Act be amended to prohibit all forms of Internet gambling, including poker. Adelson must have at least hoped to get the majority 26 signers necessary to make the position an official National Association of Attorney Generals policy and use the organization’s letterhead. Instead, the letter went out Feb. 4 on plain paper….