internet poker indictments

Crossing the Line

Jon Katkin OP-ED Spend enough time around the professional poker circuit and you\’ll quickly realize that it\’s a very small and incestuous group. Players and media members spend hours, days and sometimes weeks together in casinos and card rooms around […]

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Credit Risk?

You may or may not have seen the report Barclay\’s put out assessing the impact of American DOJ actions vs. Online Poker on the European online gambling sector. Now Moody\’s, the venerable global credit rater, has put out their own

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Collateral Damages

Jon Katkin OP-ED The DOJ dropped an A-bomb on the online poker industry Friday, and, as you\’d expect, the impact was devastating. Within hours of the DOJ\’s indictments, PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker had shut down real money gaming in

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The (More Shocking?) 80-page Civil Complaint

$3 billion in forfeiture what regulated online poker promised in first year

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

The (More Shocking?) 80-page Civil Complaint

$3 billion in forfeiture what regulated online poker promised in first year

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