The interview this month with American Casino & Entertainment Properties’ Alec Driscoll, casts a very different light on the events of Black Friday (April 2011), in which FBI officers made a series of iGaming industry focused arrests, raids and warrant issues.

The view from this side of the Atlantic has been that the US online market, which had moved tantalisingly close to a European model in the period before Black
Friday, had done irreversible harm to the industry and itself that day.