Dear Ms. Harris: xNY.io - Bank.org received a prompt signal -- 'over-air-wire' to contact your esteemed office concerning sport app betting regulation in New York State. Disney Says Forged Doc Aids $532K 'Moana' Sanctions Bid <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2386701?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-acd3-a08313aa07ff&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fintech&utm_content=2025-09-11&read_main=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=8> By Craig Clough An attorney for Disney on Wednesday urged a California federal judge to issue $532,815 in sanctions against attorneys representing an animator who unsuccessfully alleged "Moana" lifted from his Polynesian adventure story, saying the lawyers knew or should have known a key document in the case is a forgery. Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2386701?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-acd3-a08313aa07ff&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fintech&utm_content=2025-09-11&read_more=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=8> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2386701?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-acd3-a08313aa07ff&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fintech&utm_content=2025-09-11&read_later=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=8> 3rd Circ. Questions NJ's Bid To Block Kalshi's Sports Bets <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2386146?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-acd3-a08313aa07ff&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fintech&utm_content=2025-09-11&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0> By Jessica Corso The Third Circuit seemed prepared on Wednesday to block New Jersey from enforcing a sports gambling ban on trading platform KalshiEx, with at least one judge arguing the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's authority to regulate the event contracts space "seems quite broad." 2 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2386146?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-acd3-a08313aa07ff&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fintech&utm_content=2025-09-11&read_more=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2386146?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-acd3-a08313aa07ff&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fintech&utm_content=2025-09-11&read_later=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0> Software Co. Defends Contempt Order Against Womble Atty <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2388002?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-acd3-a08313aa07ff&ab_exp_id=nl_subject&ab_exp_var=b&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fintech&utm_content=2025-09-16&read_main=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=7> By Abigail Harrison A North Carolina federal court fairly held Womble Bond Dickinson partner Pressly Millen in contempt after he and his client made misrepresentations in a "parallel" trademark dispute abroad, U.S.-based software company Dmarcian Inc. told the Fourth Circuit on Friday. Response attached | Sports Betting Co. Accuses CFTC Of Blocking Its Registration <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2387974?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-acd3-a08313aa07ff&ab_exp_id=nl_subject&ab_exp_var=b&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fintech&utm_content=2025-09-16&read_main=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0> By Aislinn Keely Sports betting app Sleeper Markets LLC has accused the Commodity Futures Trading Commission of an "illegal delay" of its bid to become a registered futures commission merchant, calling on the agency's internal watchdog to investigate the status of its application and the "broader potential illegality this incident strongly suggests may be occurring." Letter attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2387974?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-acd3-a08313aa07ff&ab_exp_id=nl_subject&ab_exp_var=b&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fintech&utm_content=2025-09-16&read_more=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2387974?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-acd3-a08313aa07ff&ab_exp_id=nl_subject&ab_exp_var=b&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fintech&utm_content=2025-09-16&read_later=1&nlsidx=0&nlaidx=0> 3 Law Firms Want Ford's 'Thermonuclear' RICO Suit Snuffed <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2388171?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-acd3-a08313aa07ff&ab_exp_id=nl_subject&ab_exp_var=b&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fintech&utm_content=2025-09-16&read_main=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=6> By Linda Chiem Knight Law Group LLP, the Altman Law Group and Wirtz Law APC have urged a California federal judge to dismantle Ford Motor Co.'s racketeering lawsuit accusing the firms of overzealous billing and conspiring to dupe unsuspecting clients in product liability and personal injury cases against automakers. 3 documents attached | Read full article » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2388171?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-acd3-a08313aa07ff&ab_exp_id=nl_subject&ab_exp_var=b&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fintech&utm_content=2025-09-16&read_more=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=6> | Save to favorites » <https://www.law360.com/fintech/articles/2388171?nl_pk=31322029-63eb-4d40-acd3-a08313aa07ff&ab_exp_id=nl_subject&ab_exp_var=b&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fintech&utm_content=2025-09-16&read_later=1&nlsidx=1&nlaidx=6> Madam Superintendent, while you are not the direct regulator of betting apps in New York State, xNY.io - Bank.org is concerned there are third party matters that would not hamper your direct recusal if there is no wrong doing. - On March 30, 2022, New York Magazine profiled you and recusals. *New York betting app regulation and the New York State of Department of Financial Services:* *In New York, the primary regulatory body for legal betting apps (specifically sports wagering and interactive fantasy sports) is the New York State Gaming Commission (NYSGC). The DFS (Department of Financial Services) in New York primarily regulates virtual currency businesses and financial services, not online betting directly.* *Crypto’s Most Powerful Regulator Is Here Adrienne Harris, New York’s financial watchdog, has enormous sway over the industry’s future:* *Thirteen years after the birth of cryptocurrency, it was supposed to be time for Washington to rein it in. Instead, the White House punted, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is still hashing out how it’s going to oversee the $2 trillion industry. State watchdogs have filled that vacuum, making Adrienne Harris, the head of the New York State Department of Financial Services, by default the most powerful crypto regulator in the country.* - *https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/adrienne-harris-is-cryptos-most-powe... <https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/adrienne-harris-is-cryptos-most-powerful-regulator.html>* The article goes on to say: *"It seems Harris did well enough. One real-estate tech company at which she worked went public last summer, and Harris appears to have cashed out. Since the disclosures were for 2020, they didn’t include her stake in Forethought, a private A.I.-based customer-service company that announced in December that it had attracted such investors as Harris, Ashton Kutcher, and Gwenyth Paltrow. When I asked her about Forethought, Harris said her investment in the company predated her time at DFS, that all her investments are now in a blind trust, and that she would recuse herself from any dealings with companies she has conflicts with."* -----(PAGE BREAK)----- - *Madam Superintendent, xNY.io - Bank.org is concerned you are aware of the illicit finances of New York betting applications. * - *These potential illicit finances have impacted xNY.io - Bank.org with professional sports teams.* Madam Superintendent, speaking on Bloomberg during an October 23, 2024 interview, you discuss market manipulation and illicit finance. Madam Superintendent, during the tail end of your interview with Bloomberg, you discuss regulation of livery insurers. *NY Dept of Financial Services Superintendent Adrienne Harris | Bloomberg Talks:* *New York Department of Financial Services Superintendent Adrienne Harris speaks from the DC Fintech Week conference in Washington with hosts Sonali Basak and Tim Stenovec.* - *https://youtu.be/S7LZuIW7Q-4?si=GrgV5p169u71H4KP <https://youtu.be/S7LZuIW7Q-4?si=GrgV5p169u71H4KP>* xNY.io - Bank.org respectfully reserves all Interjurisdictional rights. Thank you, Gunnar Larson ✌️ -- *Gunnar Donald Arthur Peter Larson * *xNY.io <http://www.xny.io/> - Bank.org <http://bank.org/>* MSc <https://www.unic.ac.cy/blockchain/msc-digital-currency/?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Search&utm_campaign=MSc-Digital-Currency-North-America&utm_term=blockchain%20unic&gclid=Cj0KCQiAyJOBBhDCARIsAJG2h5ctwwMz0MRbVSk-LaYD-GMU5UgDSw7ynxbGr_a7SkaFAZzJc1-pzxEaAi4NEALw_wcB> - Digital Currency MBA <https://www.unic.ac.cy/business-administration-entrepreneurship-and-innovation-mba-1-5-years-or-3-semesters/> - Entrepreneurship and Innovation (ip) G@xNY.io +1-917-580-8053 New York, New York 10001 On Mon, Aug 11, 2025, 6:36 PM Gunnar Larson <g@xny.io> wrote:
Dear Superintendent Adrienne Harris:
This August 11, 2025, xNY.io - Bank.org (working under an abundance of caution and plausible deniability) asks you to kindly recuse yourself from 'third-party' regulation of "betting applications" in New York State.
Madam Superintendent, while you are not the direct regulator of betting apps in New York State, xNY.io - Bank.org is concerned there are third party matters that would not hamper your direct recusal if there is no wrong doing.
*New York betting app regulation and the New York State of Department of Financial Services:*
*In New York, the primary regulatory body for legal betting apps (specifically sports wagering and interactive fantasy sports) is the New York State Gaming Commission (NYSGC). The DFS (Department of Financial Services) in New York primarily regulates virtual currency businesses and financial services, not online betting directly.*
- On March 30, 2022, New York Magazine profiled you and recusals. - Can NYDFS confirm xNY.io - Bank.org's betting application recusal request by August 15, 2025 by Noon EST?
*Crypto’s Most Powerful Regulator Is Here Adrienne Harris, New York’s financial watchdog, has enormous sway over the industry’s future:*
*Thirteen years after the birth of cryptocurrency, it was supposed to be time for Washington to rein it in. Instead, the White House punted, and the Securities and Exchange Commission is still hashing out how it’s going to oversee the $2 trillion industry. State watchdogs have filled that vacuum, making Adrienne Harris, the head of the New York State Department of Financial Services, by default the most powerful crypto regulator in the country.*
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/03/adrienne-harris-is-cryptos-most-powe...
The article goes on to say:
*"It seems Harris did well enough. One real-estate tech company at which she worked went public last summer, and Harris appears to have cashed out. Since the disclosures were for 2020, they didn’t include her stake in Forethought, a private A.I.-based customer-service company that announced in December that it had attracted such investors as Harris, Ashton Kutcher, and Gwenyth Paltrow. When I asked her about Forethought, Harris said her investment in the company predated her time at DFS, that all her investments are now in a blind trust, and that she would recuse herself from any dealings with companies she has conflicts with."*
-----(PAGE BREAK)-----
- *Madam Superintendent, xNY.io - Bank.org is concerned you are aware of the illicit finances of New York betting applications. These potential illicit finances have impacted xNY.io - Bank.org with professional sports teams.* - Madam Superintendent, speaking on Bloomberg during an October 23, 2024 interview, you discuss market manipulation and illicit finance. - Madam Superintendent, during the tail end of your interview with Bloomberg, you discuss regulation of livery insurers.
*NY Dept of Financial Services Superintendent Adrienne Harris | Bloomberg Talks:*
*New York Department of Financial Services Superintendent Adrienne Harris speaks from the DC Fintech Week conference in Washington with hosts Sonali Basak and Tim Stenovec.*
- https://youtu.be/S7LZuIW7Q-4?si=GrgV5p169u71H4KP
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Thank you,
Gunnar Larson -- *Gunnar Donald Arthur Peter Larson * *xNY.io <http://www.xny.io/> - Bank.org <http://bank.org/>*
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