This now-legal sector’s sprint must be stopped, according to Tonko, who has become its fiercest critic on Capitol Hill. Now, in most of America, placing a wager has never been so easy. Barely a dozen years ago, US authorities were still arresting and jailing online gambling executives. The transformation of official attitudes to online gambling has been head-spinning. The gambling capital of the world is playing host to one of its largest sporting events for the first time in February – less than six years after the supreme court set the stage for sports betting’s surge across much of the United States.
