{"id":528,"date":"2025-11-12T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/?p=528"},"modified":"2025-11-12T16:36:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T20:36:00","slug":"fbis-most-recent-gambling-arrests-suggest-sports-betting-regulations-are-effective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/2025\/11\/12\/fbis-most-recent-gambling-arrests-suggest-sports-betting-regulations-are-effective\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI&#8217;s Most Recent Gambling Arrests Suggest Sports-Betting Regulations Are Effective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/frankadigiacomo.html\">Frank A. DiGiacomo<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/jameslewis.html\">James A. Lewis<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/nikogounaris.html\">Niko Gounaris<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 23, 2025, the sports world was shocked with the announcement that multiple NBA figures were arrested by the FBI and subsequently indicted on charges related to gambling. The sports media and anti-gaming advocates were quick to react, pointing to sports-betting companies and the proliferation of the industry in the United States as culprits. However, such instant reactions seem to assume the criminal conduct never occurred prior to the legalization of sports betting. Instead, the arrests arguably demonstrate that the strict regulation of the sports-betting industry is effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the full <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/alerts\/fbis_most_recent_gambling_arrests_suggest_sports_betting_regulations_are_effective_1125.html\">Alert<\/a><\/em> on the Duane Morris website. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Frank A. DiGiacomo, James A. Lewis and Niko Gounaris On October 23, 2025, the sports world was shocked with the announcement that multiple NBA figures were arrested by the FBI and subsequently indicted on charges related to gambling. The sports media and anti-gaming advocates were quick to react, pointing to sports-betting companies and the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/2025\/11\/12\/fbis-most-recent-gambling-arrests-suggest-sports-betting-regulations-are-effective\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FBI&#8217;s Most Recent Gambling Arrests Suggest Sports-Betting Regulations Are Effective&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[319,34,318,67],"ppma_author":[271],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-fbi","tag-gaming","tag-nba","tag-sports-betting"],"authors":[{"term_id":271,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","author_category":"1","last_name":"Sullivan","first_name":"Margaret","job_title":"","user_url":"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com","description":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\">Visit the Duane Morris website.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/gaminglaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}