ePassporte Boss Arrested In US
 

An executive of privately held payment processing business ePassporte has been arrested as part of the ongoing US crackdown on the gambling industry. John Lamont, the company's chief executive is being held at an undisclosed location in Curacao, Dutch Antilles where operations are based. The company was widely seen as immune from any form of such risk due to a significantly lower exposure to the online gambling industry than its larger, troubled counterpart NETeller, another online payment processing company.

Less than two weeks earlier shares in NETeller were suspended on the day Stephen Lawrence, the company's former chairman, and John Lefebvre, the former group president, were both arrested. Mr Lawrence, 46, was detained in New York while Mr Lefebvre, 55, was held in Los Angeles.

It is unknown for how long Mr Lamont will be detained but the company is widely known to provide ewallet services for online gamblers and has continued to do business in the United States despite the country's crackdown on internet gambling. Most companies pulled out of the US last year but ePassporte was not directly involved in gambling and a larger proportion of its business is believed to relate to the adult industry.

Prosecuting attorney Michael Santonio said "Criminal prosecutions related to online gambling will be pursued even in cases where the entirety of activities are carried on outside the United States."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/te...1epasspte.html


stupid asses, they should known not to go to the USA!!!!

sorry if its posted already, does anyone know whats happening?

sad I hope he gets out quick

oh shit, pull all your money out.

Insert dramatic music hear.

Epass to paypal transactions about to shoot through roof.

ai caramba!

oh shit, I thought this would be fake drama thread, but unfortunately it isnt :(

wow, I just said last week that I thought epassporte was gunna be hit too....

Oh no, this is terrible news for epassporte :(

I got a page not found error on that link.

Looks like he was not in the US

No biggie, sure it's a bad thing but it wont change much besides no more vacations to the states for the people involved.

thats messed up, i knew something was up when i couldnt get through

the lines are all busy :(

why the fuck did they arrest him over there? how?

ah fuck..this couldbe bad news for many of us as well.

Shit

Im sure he has his team of lawyers to bail him out.

hm indeed link doesnt work for me

and the date seems to be January 22nd, cant believe noone else have posted about it so far

O, shit! Not good! :Oh crap :Oh crap

Wow. The traditional gambling industry must have donated a lot of money to the Republican Party through the infinite number of channels available.

Fake, and why would he be detained in the Dutch Antilles? Just as if it's American ;-)

Hope everyone in the US is claiming your epassporte money on your taxes.
US Government has peeked in the window and they just love to find tax issues down the chain.

seems fake, I am not finding other sources on it and the link doesn't work.

yup cant find this anywhere, hope its fake

not a mention

I dont gamble etc but I think people should be able to have their fun

we are forgetting that some of the most powerful people still control vegas

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

hope this aint true....otherwise:mad:

i do not think that this is true

This post is completely untrue. The link you posted doesn?t even work. We don?t even have anyone who works at ePassporte by the name of John Lamont.

bs story, next thread

smelled like fake news from a mile away...

Hopefully not a thing that might happen in the future

Fake.....

Posting false information is a bannable offense.