MikesVikes Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Three largest online poker sites indicted and shut down by FBI (19) (271)(77)April 15, 2011 | 12:32 pm The founders of the three largest online poker sites were indicted by the FBI on Friday in what could serve as a death blow to the thriving industry. Eleven executives at PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker were charged with bank fraud and money laundering in an indictment unsealed in a Manhattan court. Two of the executives were arrested on Friday morning in Utah and Nevada. Federal agents are searching for the others. Prosecutors are seeking to immediately shut down the sites and to eventually send the executives to jail and to recover $3 billion from the companies. By Friday afternoon Full Tilt Poker’s site displayed a message explaining that “this domain name has been seized by the F.B.I. pursuant to an Arrest Warrant.” The online gambling industry has taken off over the last decade, drawing an estimated 15 million Americans to bet online. In 2006 Congress passed a law prohibiting online gambling. Most of the leading sites found ways to work around the law using foreign banks, but prosecutors allege that in doing so they broke the law. “These defendants concocted an elaborate criminal fraud scheme, alternately tricking some U.S. banks and effectively bribing others to assure the continued flow of billions in illegal gambling profits,” Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement. -- Nathaniel Popper link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WashingtonD Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Interesting as of 4:18 PM all three sites and poker rooms are working with no notifications.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brentastic Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 I guess this means we HAVE to get as many huddlers to play tonight because it might be our last tournament!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddahj Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 I guess this means we HAVE to get as many huddlers to play tonight because it might be our last tournament!!! I agree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WashingtonD Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 I guess this means we HAVE to get as many huddlers to play tonight because it might be our last tournament!!! They'll just keep figuring ways around these rules...plus the home game thing seems like something they couldn't go after any ways because there is no money changing hands (well at least not as far as anyone knows) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bpwallace49 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Damn it. I can't play tonight. Tomorrow for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikesVikes Posted April 15, 2011 Author Share Posted April 15, 2011 Do each of these sites have a dot com And a dot net site? Dot coms are shut down. My son says his still works too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheikYerbuti Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Ginsu this country. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Country Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Dot Nets are probably okay as most of the sites used those as the host for their play money only sites. I haven't been home, but I would venture a guess that play money games are still accessible, it's just the real money portions that have been shut down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbpfan1231 Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Just logged into Pokerstars and real money tables seem to be still open????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puddy Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 You can 'bet' your ass that if they shut down the money site the free ones won't be supported. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polksalet Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Hope and Change Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunday Couch Potatoe Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 Dot Nets are probably okay as most of the sites used those as the host for their play money only sites. I haven't been home, but I would venture a guess that play money games are still accessible, it's just the real money portions that have been shut down. this is the exact case.... Just tried real money table and its a no go for US players but play money is still a go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooby's Hubby Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 these sites are huge in Europe so I doubt they will shut themselves down. our country are the only ones being prix in this world Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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