{"id":181,"date":"2011-08-13T15:16:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T15:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleverduckmedia.com\/media\/wordpress\/aga-spent-64162109-lobbying-for-online-gambling\/"},"modified":"2011-08-13T15:16:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T15:16:24","slug":"aga-spent-64162109-lobbying-for-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/aga-spent-64162109-lobbying-for-online-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"AGA spent $641,621.09 Lobbying for Online Gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><txp:image id=\"103\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The American Gaming Association spent $641,621.09 lobbying the federal government in Q2-2011 on issues such as Internet gambling &#038; online poker, a recent Congressional disclosure report shows.<\/p>\n<p>The amount is $281,015.61 more than what the trade association for US land casino operators spent in last year&#8217;s second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>It is clear that the AGA are full steam ahead in doing all possible in lobbying for online gaming. With such big players as Caesars already to go with online gambling whenever the Frderal laws change.<\/p>\n<p>The details of how, where and whom the money was spent is not clear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$281,015.61 more than what they spent for US land casino interests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-headlines"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>AGA spent $641,621.09 Lobbying for Online Gambling - iGaming Post<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gaming-awards.com\/NEWS\/aga-spent-64162109-lobbying-for-online-gambling\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AGA spent $641,621.09 Lobbying for Online Gambling - 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