The FBI Seizes The Three Biggest U.S. Poker Websites
 

The U.S. Attorney for New York has indicted the founders the three largest online poker companies in the U.S. and seized their websites in a major crackdown on internet gambling.

The indictment charges eleven defendants ? including the founders of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker ? with bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling offenses.

In addition, the domains for FullTiltPoker.net and AbsolutePoker.com have been seized by the FBI and replaced by this pleasant reminder that gambling is illegal.

http://www.businessinsider.com/onlin...s-fraud-2011-4

links pulled ...:Oh crap

FullTiltPoker.com still works

actually the .net one works too

holly fucking shit.

probably cached. Confirmed from several locations that its seized.

All the sites come up fine for me....

Websites are working for me and I just tested out the program itself, working fine. FTP. I'll check the poker message boards.

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WOW... that`s BIG NEWS :(

I logged in to my Pokerstars account with no problem.

Shouldn't an F5 refresh clear the cache of the page?

i only get it for: Full Tilt Poker.com

Yeh confirmed, it's happening. DNS was taken over, they are slowly pulling the sites.

The US government is completely out of line on their online gambling stance. They need to wake the fuck up.

man, if only they were a bank... would've gotten off scott-free

why would these companies setup shop in the US? are they stupid?

well if they haven't seized yet they will be. the just unsealed the indictment and are "moving" on it.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/29...bling-1020606/

This message board is getting hammered now so it might be slow, but a private message board that I'm a member of is running fine and they confirm as well.

I don't see why they just don't make it legal and tax the fuck out of it...

Yep once DNS updates im sure more will follow.

scary shit that the govt can just move in and seize domains just based on charges. Guilty before innocent.

suck if you were an affiliate with tons of players built up at those sites.


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That is pretty heavy, if its true:disgust

To many people have paid to much towards government over the years. Especially the big boys in vegas.

WOW...Unreal

it's not the onion folks. google it.

a shift + refresh should. Depends on if you have the DNS already cached tho...

Is this a late April Fool's joke? Those sites are all up and running.

The big boys in Las Vegas have been getting behind online gambling as of late. They want in before it becomes legal and they are pushed out. It will happen, more and more legislators are considering it. Just a matter of time.

It's all nonsense. Millions of people can gamble responsibly.

Yeah looks to be true:

http://www.domainnamenews.com/legal-...rincipals/9184

The US government seized the domains for Poker Stars, Absolute Poker, and Full Tilt Poker and charged the site principals with bank fraud, illegal gambling offenses and laundering billions in illegal gambling proceeds.

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See the full press release after the jump

MANHATTAN U.S. ATTORNEY CHARGES PRINCIPALS OF THREE LARGEST INTERNET POKER COMPANIES WITH BANK FRAUD, ILLEGAL GAMBLING OFFENSES AND LAUNDERING BILLIONS IN ILLEGAL GAMBLING PROCEEDS

Multi-Billion Dollar Civil Money Laundering And Forfeiture Action Also Filed

Internet Domain Names Used By The Poker Companies Seized

PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and JANICE FEDARCYK, the Assistant-Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced the unsealing of an Indictment today charging eleven defendants, including the founders of the three largest Internet poker companies doing business in the United States – PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker (the “Poker Companies”)- with bank fraud, money laundering, and illegal gambling offenses. The United States also filed a civil money laundering and in rem forfeiture
complaint (the “Civil Complaint”) against the Poker Companies, their assets, and the assets of several payment processors for the Poker Companies. In addition, restraining orders were issued against more than 75 bank accounts utilized by the Poker Companies and their payment processors, and five Internet domain names used by the Poker Companies to host their illegal poker games were seized.

Poker stars is up here and i never went before a friend of mine does tho, so no cache here.

I hope they go after the affiliates and the users too.

I'm playing on Fulltilt right now, I thought these sites were outside of the jurisdiction of the US.

Strangely enough the software still works... haha

I'm sick and tired of this bullshit Gov't telling us what to see and do!

FUCK YOU!
:321GFY

They work fine here. No cache. :2 cents:

DNS has to update around the world you silly gooses.

that is pretty crazy

if you are still logged in and playing while seized expect a knock at your door later today.

none of the sites appear to be down here. dns is fresh , checked thru several proxies..

Just wow.

Cash out quickly.

Whatever you say buddy.

Well... good for Nevada!

:D

America, the home of the free.

ROFL

Unreal. Fuck the US Government.

If you're stupid enough to promote an illegal site then it sucks to be stupid.

Imagine if it were a Scat site that got it's billing pulled?

Don't promote illegal sites. Simple when you say it.

laws are different in different countries moron.

Guilty until Proven innocent. Gotta love the new regime

i think it's stupid that online gambling is illegal, but i don't feel bad for them, it's illegal and they are making money only because everybody else is respecting the stupid law. no point in respecting the law if it's not going to be enforced.

Pretty big news, i wonder how it will play out.