“Responsible and healthy gambling, in a social market economy and mobilizing more than $1 billion, is an activity that needs to be taxed. No one can generate profits without being taxed. The profits, then, are directed to health, education, development of tourism and sports.”
—Gonzalo Perez, vice-president of the Peruvian Association of Online Sports Betting (APADELA)
“A lot of these countries won’t recognize a request for extradition.”
—Anthony Cabot, a distinguished fellow in gaming law at UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law, discussing the problem of bringing illegal sportsbook operators to justice in the U.S.
“Many more people have opinions about the election than about the Super Bowl.”
—Jay Kornegay, Westgate SuperBook vice president, talks about how well betting on elections would do in the U.S. if it was legal.
“The junket business was always a margin-challenged business, so I feel grateful that we have all this new space coming back to us that we can redeploy in what will still be the biggest gaming market in the world … and we’ll have the biggest footprint.”
—Rob Goldstein, chairman and CEO, Las Vegas Sands Corp., on using former VIP space in Macau for base mass, premium mass and direct premium
