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In an interview with the Associated Press, New York Republican Assemblyman Dean Murray said of his state’s Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman: "He's gone way over the line" with the fantasy sports probe.
A Republican disagreeing with a Democratic? Unheard of, right?
Or just your typical partisanship and the reason why Government is broken?
Not the situation here.
Murray says he has supported Schneiderman in most instances.
And, as the AP reports, Schneiderman has made many national headlines over the past year, prompting some to question the AG’s motives. His two predecessors have gone on to become Governors.
He's investigated energy companies over whether they misled investors about the risks global warming posed to their business. Several national retailers stopped putting workers on call for short-notice shifts after Schneiderman questioned the practice. And he shook the herbal supplements industry with DNA tests he says showed that product labels lied.
"We have so many forms of gambling. Why go after this?" Murray asks.
And Schneiderman himself may be gambling with this latest move.
Both FanDue and DraftKings, the two companies he has specifically opted to target, have brought on high powered attorneys. The Daily Fantasy Sports leaders insist what they do is not gambling and that, besides, there is a carve-out in current federal legislation for fantasy sports even if it is.
Boston-based DraftKings and New York-based FanDuel say Schneiderman is miscasting their business as gambling — defined in New York as risking "something of value upon the outcome of a contest of chance" — when they say it's really a game of skill.
Boston-based DraftKings and New York-based FanDuel say Schneiderman is miscasting their business as gambling — defined in New York as risking "something of value upon the outcome of a contest of chance" — when they say it's really a game of skill.
This, by the way, is the same Eric Schneiderman who took on real estate mogul and now Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, accusing him of running a sham "Trump University" that didn't deliver on apprenticeships and other promises. Trump responded in typical “Trump” style, by referring to the NY Attorney General as a “headline-hungry political hack”.
- Alejandro Botticelli, Gambling911.com
