FBI Arrests Former NETELLER Executives

Card Player Online ^ | Tuesday, January 16, 2007 | Card Player Online

[jpl]

The war on internet poker is really raging.

[jpl]

Ping to the poker ping list.

[TADSLOS]

Ruh Roh...

[mkjessup]

I'd wager the government will win it's case, as absurd as it may be.

[FreedomPoster]

Sir, you're under arrest for illegal offering of games of chance, i.e., gambling.

[SubGeniusX]

Thank You, "Moral Majority" for protecting me from my self...

well maybe the MM had some help from the Vegas lobby ...

how do they always wind up in bed together?

[JacksonCalhoun]

Amazing since the biggest gambling crooks are the gummint, taking 50% of the pot on Lottery, and then taxing your winnings from the remainder.

[calex59]

People downplayed the ban on internet gambling but this is a major reason the dems won so many seats in congress this last election. Sneaking the bill through on the sly and making it illegal for Americans to gamble on line was a dispicable move and done mainly by Republicans and it pissed a lot of republicans off.There is no difference between these freedom grabbers and the liberals.

[Centurion2000]

Two former NETELLER executives were detained while traveling separately through the United States yesterday (Jan. 15) in "connection with the creation and operation of an Internet payment services company that facilitated the transfer of billions of dollars of illegal gambling proceeds from United States citizens to the owners of various Internet gambling companies located overseas," according to the U.S. Attorney General's office of Southern New York.

I guess the government hates competition.

[Physicist]

So specifically what law did they break, when did they break it, and where were they at the time?

[Wormwood]

Thank You, "Moral Majority" for protecting me from my self...

And the Theocons wonder why people crossed party lines in *droves* in the last election.

[Clifford The Big Red Dog]

I'm shocked! Shocked to discover that gambling is going on online!

[Clifford The Big Red Dog]

I think the American Taliban needs to be divorced from conservatism.

[Dr.Deth]

And so the shakedown starts...

[Smogger]

Please. The Congress didn't pass that legislation out of any sense of moral duty or because the bingo loving "religious right" demanded it. They passed it because they couldn't figure out how to tax internet gambling, and because they are in the pocket of the brick and mortat gambling interests.

[ccmay]

There are millions of Republicans who play online poker, and they are boiling mad about this nanny-state bulls**t from the blue nose wing of the Republican party. I personally know two Republicans who said they stayed home on Election Day because of this. I think this was a significant overlooked factor in why the GOP lost both houses of Congress. Nice going you Puritan a$$holes.

-ccm

[fhlh]

Theocons????

[Clifford The Big Red Dog]

You mean the concrete shoes gambling interests, don't you?

[flashbunny]

"Sir, you're under arrest for illegal offering of games of chance, i.e., gambling."

Only the government can do that, doncha know. Can't have competition for the lottery (and social security).

[frogjerk]

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