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Flutter's FanDuel faces US lawsuit over predatory marketing
S ince he took office in December 2020, the mayor of Baltimore, Brandon Scott, has been on a mission to address the the city's challenges.
Crime has dropped, with murders falling 20 per cent last year. Scott has also been tackling the city's empty, abandoned houses, investing in youth services and repairing its crumbling infrastructure.
This year, he took on another challenge: the damage he says is being done by the growth in online sports betting. In April he launched a lawsuit against gambling firms, including FanDuel, which is owned by Flutter Entertainment, based in Dublin. Scott alleged that FanDuel had been targeting some of the most vulnerable Baltimoreans, inducing them to bet beyond their means and using sophisticated and misleading sales tactics to do so.
