{"id":6567,"date":"2016-02-01T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/uncategorized\/hunter-shkolnik-quoted-in-usatoday-about-daily-fantasy-sports-sites\/"},"modified":"2016-02-01T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T00:50:08","slug":"hunter-shkolnik-quoted-in-usatoday-about-daily-fantasy-sports-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/article\/hunter-shkolnik-quoted-in-usatoday-about-daily-fantasy-sports-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter in USATODAY about Daily Fantasy Sports Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As USATODAY \u00a0reports, daily fan\u00a0sports\u00a0sites\u00a0DraftKings\u00a0and\u00a0FanDuel have been sued by athletes and\u00a0users\u00a0and declared illegal under the laws of a handful of states in recent months.\u00a0But arguably the biggest blow came Friday as a major payment processing company declared it would no longer process payments for daily fantasy sites in the U.S. beginning next month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I don\u2019t think they need to take the risk until the issue is resolved,&#8221;\u00a0Hunter Shkolnik, a lawyer representing a New York resident who claims the companies illegally issued loans and collected gambling debts, told USA TODAY Sports on Friday. &#8220;There is no upside for them. I think they want to see where this is all going. They don\u2019t want it to appear that they\u2019re facilitating illegal\u00a0gambling.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/fantasy\/2016\/01\/29\/vantiv-entertainment-stops-payment-processing-daily-fantasy-fanduel-draftkings\/79545932\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As USATODAY \u00a0reports, daily fan\u00a0sports\u00a0sites\u00a0DraftKings\u00a0and\u00a0FanDuel have been sued by athletes and\u00a0users\u00a0and declared illegal under the laws of a handful of states in recent months.\u00a0But arguably the biggest blow came Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[774],"tags":[858],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-napoli-shkolnik-news","tag-hunter-shkolnik"],"acf":[],"page_builder_type":"gutenberg","gutenberg_data":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}