U.S. Pressures Casinos Over Sports Betting

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): The U.S. Treasury is telling casinos to do more to stop criminals from using their sports books to launder money in its latest warning to the industry to bolster compliance programs.

The Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network along with law enforcement and regulators have noted that criminals are increasingly placing bets with casino sports books through intermediaries, concealing the origin of their funds and posing money-laundering risks, according to a letter FinCEN wrote to an industry trade group.

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