3 of the largest online poker sites seized by FBI

pgabriel · Apr 18, 2011

i was watching rain man, and the dealer at the black jack table was the same guy from casino when pesci was in the casino after he was banned and they switched the female dealer to the guy.

random post that i have no where else to put

BleedRocketsRed · Apr 20, 2011

I know that this news is a few hours old but WE ARE GETTING OUR MONEY BACK!!!!!!!!! (well Full Tilt and PokerStars, AB/UB customers still ****ed. I am now wondering whether or not they can afford it).

No idea who the payment processor is since it is illegal for them to use a payment processor but maybe the DoJ will set something up.

Regardless, here it is

http://blogs.forbes.com/nathanvardi/2011/04/20/u-s-online-poker-players-will-get-their-money-back/

U.S. Online Poker Players Will Get Their Money Back
Apr. 20 2011 - 10:54 am | 13,424 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment

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Federal prosecutors in Manhattan may have declared war against the world’s biggest online poker companies, but the two sides are working together to return funds belonging to U.S. players.

Under an agreement announced today, the government will allow PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker to use their web sites to facilitate the withdrawal of U.S. players’ funds held in accounts with the companies. The five-page domain-name use agreements with PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker will also let the poker companies continue to use their domain names to offer for-money online poker games to players outside the U.S. In return the world’s two biggest online poker companies have agreed not to facilitate for-money poker games for U.S. players and to let an independent monitor verify their compliance with the deal.

Last week Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, shut down the online poker industry in America by seizing five Internet domain names, including pokerstars.com and fulltiltpoker.com, used by the three main companies facilitating online poker games in the U.S. In addition, a federal judge issued a restraining order against 76 bank accounts in 14 countries utilized by those online poker firms and their payment processors. The crackdown included the unsealing of an indictment against 11 individuals, including Isai Scheinberg and Raymond Bitar, the founders of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, which accused them of operating illegal gambling businesses and conspiring to commit bank fraud.

“No individual player accounts were ever frozen or restrained, and each implicated poker company has at all times been free to reimburse any player’s deposited funds,” Bharara said in a statement. “This office expects the companies to return the money that U.S. players entrusted to them, and we will work with the poker companies to facilitate the return of funds to players.”

The deals, which were struck between the feds and the online poker firms yesterday, will likely bring relief to U.S. online poker players who feared they would lose or be unable to access money they had deposited with PokerStars or Full Tilt Poker. The agreements permit PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker to facilitate withdrawals of U.S. players’ funds by utilizing their usual domain names. Both companies are obligated under the agreements to place banner messages provided by federal prosecutors on their U.S. facing web sites once they regain access to them. The two companies will be allowed to place instructions on their web sites that will explain how funds can be retrieved, but the domain names will remain seized by U.S. government lawyers.
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Ziggy · May 23, 2011

My site went down. Do I get the money back I had in the account? Should I be worried about anything else?

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