A state Supreme Court judge on Wednesday is yet to rule on whether to impose an injunction on the operations of
daily fantasy sports websites DraftKings and FanDuel.
Company officials at daily
fantasy sports website FanDuel have vowed to keep their New York operations running after the state's top lawman told them to stop.
Daily
fantasy sports website DraftKings filed a brief in response to an amended complaint against the company filed by state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office last week.
Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara's office is probing whether the business model used
by fantasy sports websites is legal, a report said Wednesday.
The head of the
daily fantasy sports website FanDuel told his New York customers that they should keep on entering the company's contests, despite a warning from the state's attorney general that they amount to illegal gambling.
State lawmakers have reached agreement on legislation that would allow daily
fantasy sports websites to resume operations in New York, but the measure still faces an uncertain fate at the Capitol.
Cuomo signed into law a bill that legalizes daily
fantasy sports websites and gives the state Gaming Commission the power to regulate them.
Local fans of online daily
fantasy sports websites are on the sidelines, following a State Supreme Court judge's ruling to block such sites from doing business within New York State.