June 2013: Las Vegas Sands, Adelson Push Back Against Online Gambling

The website stopinternetgambling.com launches. The site and the advocacy group will later morph into the Coalition to Stop Internet Gambling.

The man behind the anti-online gambling movement is Las Vegas Sands owner Sheldon Adelson. His CSIG begins life as a rather discreet lobbying arm for Sands. As time wears on, though, Adelson escalates the group’s involvement in gambling policy.