The Feds\’ allegations tell a rather compelling narrative of illegal gambling, bank fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to circumvent US law — that if proven calls for the forfeiture of not just domain names, but also: $1.5 billion from PokerStars […]
We drop everything and do a 6-hour breaking-news type show as the huge story develops regarding the 11-count indictment by the US Department of Justice against Full Tilt, Pokerstars, and Absolute Poker. Brandon Adams and Eric Morris (CEO of Bluff M…
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Sign of things to come? A notice greeting visitors to seized file-sharing search engine torrent-finder.com. Federal graphic artists have been hard at work designing this new splash page for websites the DOJ intends to shut down. Lame-duck Congress resumed today,
Patrice Tierney entered into a plea deal with the US Attorney\’s Office in Boston wherein she admits to being \”willfully blind\” to the nature of her brother\’s online gambling operations. Oh boy … the election-driven hedlines in the mainstream press
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@JDNewitt may or may not be prohibited by law from live-tweeting a court-ordered visit with federal prosecutors in New York. #pokerWTF? Wicked Chops is reporting that Jason Newitt has been subpoenaed by a US federal court in the Southern District
US Feds Subpoena Full Tilt Witness Newitt called to plea 5th and/or cut immunity deal?
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Is somebody winning the TOC? Do we care? Not saying I won\’t be watching it once it gets edited down for TV, but I thought we were supposed to be at a final table by now, not down to 17
TOC Alternatives Tao of Pokerati
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Online gambling+poker payment processor Douglas Rennick had to sign over his property on Tuesday, in accordance with his recent guilty plea in US Federal Court. That, of course, has the Southern District of New York now batting 1.000 when it
Despite reports to the suggestive contrary, indicted online poker payment processor Daniel Tzvetkoff has not been released on bail. The 27-year-old Australian, who briefly lived the \”baller\” life of a gray-market money-transfering kingpin, is still in custody in the North
Not So Fast on Tzvetkoff Bail, NY Court Is Saying Payment processor still in Vegas jail
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Apparently, some in the non-poker media recognize the historic nature of the first-ever UIGEA charges — and they\’re not happy about it. Check out Reason Magazine\’s jumping to the defense of Daniel Tzvetkoff, or at least being extremely of Department
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A Las Vegas federal judge granted Australian Daniel Tzvetkoff bail as he awaits trial on four charges related to more than half a billion dollars worth of bank fraud, money laundering, and UIGEA violations. The 28-year-old payment processor faces up
Tzvetkoff Granted Bail Accused UIGEA violator could live under house arrest
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