{"id":570358,"date":"2026-03-17T19:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/arizona-ag-files-charges-against-kalshi-over-illegal-gambling\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T19:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:09:12","slug":"arizona-ag-files-charges-against-kalshi-over-illegal-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/arizona-ag-files-charges-against-kalshi-over-illegal-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona AG files charges against Kalshi over \u2018illegal gambling\u2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Kalshi spokesperson said that the criminal case was based on \u201dpaper-thin arguments\u201d and claimed the company was exclusively under federal jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced that her office filed gambling and related criminal charges against the companies behind prediction markets platform Kalshi.<\/p>\n

In a Tuesday notice, Mayes said<\/a> that the charges alleged that Kalshi operated an \u201cillegal gambling business in Arizona without a license\u201d and offered election wagering, in violation of state laws. Arizona authorities alleged that Kalshi\u2019s prediction markets platform allowed state residents to bet on event contracts related to sports and state and federal elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cKalshi may brand itself as a \u2018prediction market,\u2019 but what it’s actually doing is running an illegal gambling operation and taking bets on Arizona elections, both of which violate Arizona law,\u201d said Mayes. \u201cNo company gets to decide for itself which laws to follow.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Kalshi spokesperson said that the criminal case was based on \u201dpaper-thin arguments\u201d and claimed the company was exclusively under federal jurisdiction. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes announced that her office filed gambling and related criminal charges against the companies behind prediction markets platform Kalshi. In a Tuesday notice, Mayes said that the charges alleged […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":570359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-570358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}