Gambling News by House of Odds

With a former NFL lobbyist now at the White House, Treasury takes time out from financial crisis to ensure that football gets a monopoly on online gaming, even though billions of dollars of taxable revenue are now flowing offshore.

The Bush administration is moving in its last weeks to finalize regulations to enforce a controversial law that seeks to block Internet gambling. The move is drawing hot protests from Democratic lawmakers and supporters of online betting. "This midnight rulemaking will tie the hands of the new administration, burden the financial services industry at a time of economic crisis and contradict the .