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Originally Posted by Chippa58
The NY Times article says the cease and desist order applies just to FD and DK. If its DFS being attacked on the skill vs gambling argument, then why aren't all the other sites getting the same letter from the AG? I don't know of course, but I just think its possible that some serious shenanigans could have happened and maybe that's at least partially what this is about.
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Originally Posted by CanadaPete
So we can still play daily fantasy on yahoo??
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Originally Posted by CalledDownLight
then why isn't he shutting down season long leagues too?
I'm not claiming the AG is eternally correct or is great at his job or whatever, but that's not how these kinds of things work. I think you guys are still imagining the AG just 'made a law.'
He's enforcing it. Maybe in a way we all disagree with it, but that's not really the issue with the posts quoted here.
So to be clear: no new law was made. The AG is saying DK and FD are violating the current law.
Presumably although unspoken is that other operators in the space are also violating the law but I suppose we can imagine that is to be determined. The same with season long leagues.
When the Attorney General indicts Lucky Luciano for racketeering, that doesn't mean John Gotti is engaged in legal business by implication of the fact that the Attorney General didn't haul away or name Gotti in a RICO indictment of Luciano. It also doesn't mean the AG acted hypocritically by not indicting Jimmy Hoffa for a different kind of potential racketeering. For the very near future, it's going to be up to the other operators like Yahoo to determine how much they think the AG is claiming DFS or fantasy writ large (including season long leagues) are gambling versus something very specific about DK/FD's model which is raising law enforcement scrutiny. I assume that over time the AG position will be clarified. It's possible there is something uniquely criminal about DK/FD that the AG has uncovered (Chippa58's post). More likely is the glut of ads from DK/FD have made them the most visible players and so they are raising the hackles of the AG whereas Yahoo/CBS/StarsDraft et al are flying under their radar.
But in the end, at this moment, it's unknown how this impacts the other players and the current information is not enough to make strong implications or declare grand hypocrisy either way ("what about the lottery? notwithstanding). To reiterate: the AG may be a complete clown. But a letter to some people operating that the AG believes are operating criminally to stop is not an implication all potential criminals have been identified or that similar related activity is necessarily legal or illegal.
Last edited by DVaut1; 11-11-2015 at 04:52 AM.