Daily fantasy sites have long claimed that the fantasy sports provision in the 2006 anti-gambling law allows them to operate freely in the 45 states that don't have specific prohibitions on the contests. Sports betting and other types of gambling on the Internet are mostly illegal in the United States, though horse racing was also given an exception in the 2006 law.
Leach said he pushed the 2006 act, which led to the eventual shut down of online poker and other gambling sites, with the intention of stopping online betting. But the law doesn't offer a clear definition of Internet gambling, referring instead to existing federal and state laws with differing interpretations.
FanDuel and DraftKings both promote themselves as offering games of skill,
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"The legality of daily fantasy sports is the same as that of season long fantasy sports," DraftKings says on its website.
Fantasy sports companies are still bound by state and federal laws on sports betting, wire transfers,
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Leach, who lost a re-election bid in 2006 after 15 terms in office,
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"All citizens can make their own judgment whether America is better off with or without a dominating gambling ethic," he said. "But what is self-evident is that UIGEA exempted fantasy sports from one specific law enforcement mechanism but not from the broad sweep of law itself."
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