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Originally Posted by Quentin
In an acronym? UIGEA
The U.S. government even asserts "extraterritorial jurisdiction" with respect to UIGEA, and has arrested foreign nationals under UIGEA, people who operate gambling sites hosted in other countries, but who have accepted wagers from U.S. customers, when such were people unfortunate enough to find themselves on U.S. soil, or in a country that was willing to detain and extradite them to the U.S. Gary Kaplan and David Carruthers of BetonSports are a couple of examples. |
The very day the owners of NETeller were nabbed while catching their connecting flights was the day every gaming site closed their doors to new US players. Everyone ensured they used non-US based Intermediary banks so the funds wouldn't get nabbed, etc etc.
Fuck that was a hellacious week. Had to update all the banks and processors. Shit some great processors even died because of that, Surefire/firecah, NETeller, and Citadel to an extent. While they may still be around, they're nothing like they were before the UIGEA for quite a while.