California banned them. New York banned them. Tennessee, Indiana, Maine. Illinois sent 65 cease-and-desist letters in a single month. Maryland's House passed a ban 105-24. The multi-billion-dollar parallel casino market that operated in the legal gray zone for years is in a multi
In the AI era, gambling compliance becomes a citation infrastructure asset. Operators with rigorous, visible, and well-documented compliance are accumulating gambling entity authority that translates directly into citation share, turning compliance into sportsbook AI authority infrastructure.
David Carruthers, the former BetonSports CEO convicted on federal racketeering charges in the offshore-gambling prosecution cycle of the 2000s, is associated with the Curaçao-licensed MyBookie sportsbook. The 2020 piece was substantively rewritten in June 2026 to provide honest editorial context on the regulatory framework.