Billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson has vowed to spend "whatever it takes" to impose a ban on Internet gaming.
Adelson runs Las Vegas Sands Corp., which owns land-based casinos in Nevada, Pennsylvania and Asia. He claims online wagering will destroy the gaming industry. Adelson has formed a group called the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling to lobby for a ban. The effort is getting a boost this week as members of Congress who are considered his allies introduce a bill to do just that. According to Human Events, a conservative-leaning publication, Adelson's group wrote the legislation. Beyond lobbying, Adelson plans to contribute millions of dollars to Republican causes in the upcoming election cycles. In 2012, he spent somewhere between $90 million, according to Reuters, and $150 million, according to Human Events, in an attempt to defeat President Barack Obama Federal law bars Internet gaming unless it is conducted under a Class III gaming compact or under state law. Get the Story: