The Attorney General’s Office in Washington, D.C., is investigating the awarding of a $215m no-bid contract to Intralot in July 2019. Axios D.C.’s unnamed sources close to the investigation say people working for the jurisdiction’s top legal officer submitted an information request regarding the deal in the summer of 2023.

Intralot began operating the district’s lottery in 2009 before winning the contract a decade later from the D.C. Lottery to run the sole districtwide sports betting app.

private operators launched districtwide in July 2024

The Greece-based company partnered with Veteran Services Corporation to build the GambetDC app. Multiple years of disastrous performance led to FanDuel briefly taking over before other private operators launched districtwide in July 2024.

Washington, D.C. is dealing with several controversies regarding the awarding of government contracts. One such case saw Councilmember Trayon White accept bribes from FBI informant and lottery contractor Allieu Kamara, who himself pleaded guilty in August to bribing district officials and fraud. Kamara’s firm provided installation services for Intralot’s equipment and “staff augmentation services for managed warehousing.”