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VP Candidate’s Son No Longer Tied to Casino Lobbying

The son of Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden has severed his ties to an online slot and gambling representative, reported the Barack Obama campaign. Hunter Biden, aged thirty-eight, reportedly discontinued his work as a lobbyist for Russ De Leon, a shareholder in the Party Gaming group, after his dad was tapped to serve as Obama’s running mate. Reporters, eager to be instrumental in digging any type of dirt up on the nominees or their families, had discovered Friday that Biden’s son was working for the online slots and casino industry, but the Dems were quick to refute that news with the revelation of Biden’s cessation of lobbying activities.

The law firm that Hunter Biden helped found had been retained at the beginning of the summer by De Leon and his wife, Ruth Parasol. The spouses are American expatriates living in London that established the online slot machine and gambling company PartyGaming PLC. The billionaires’ PartyPoker site was forced to stop doing business with American gamblers after President Bush’s 2006 signing of the controversial and unpopular the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA). Because the UIGEA did not specify whether online slot and gambling sites that had accepted Americans’ business prior to the law’s effective date were in contempt, De Leon and Parasol hired Biden’s law firm to try and convince the Legislature to rule that online gambling had been legal before 2006.

Now, the online slot and gambling magnates will have to push forward without Biden’s assistance. Could be that their loss is, in an roundabout way, the United States of America’s gain!

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