July 09, 2012
A New York federal judge on Monday released Full Tilt Poker CEO Raymond Bitar on $2.5 million bail, one week after he was arrested and charged in a superseding indictment with defrauding poker customers through an Internet Ponzi scheme.
June 27, 2012
A former SunFirst Bank director who admitted to involvement in online poker-related money laundering was sentenced to three months in prison Wednesday.
March 28, 2012
A New York federal judge on Wednesday chastised prosecutors and refused to accept a plea bargain that would allow a former SunFirst Bank director to admit to a single misdemeanor count over his alleged involvement in laundering money for online poker sites.
March 26, 2012
A payment processor for a trio of poker sites targeted in a U.S. Department of Justice crackdown on online gaming entered a guilty plea Monday, admitting to a single conspiracy count.
February 28, 2012
A Canadian middleman who helped three leading poker websites get around U.S. laws banning online gambling pled guilty Tuesday to charges of bank fraud and money laundering.
January 17, 2012
A man who prosecutors say tricked banks so he could process hundreds of millions of dollars in illegal payments for leading online poker companies pled guilty Tuesday to three felony charges in New York federal court.
October 03, 2011
A banker indicted in April in the money laundering case against three online poker websites asked a New York federal judge on Friday to drop the charges, arguing the law aimed at illegal Internet gambling exempts banks that process payments.
June 08, 2011
A man accused of helping online poker companies process billions of dollars in illegal customer funds will remain in custody after a New York federal judge denied him bail Wednesday over concerns about a lengthy criminal history and past efforts to flee from justice.
May 23, 2011
A man accused of aiding a scheme by poker companies to defraud banks pled guilty in New York on Monday to conspiracy to commit fraud and other crimes, becoming the first suspect in the multibillion-dollar scandal to admit wrongdoing.
May 11, 2011
A New York federal judge on Wednesday put a criminal case accusing three of the biggest online poker companies of defrauding banks in order to process billions of dollars in payments on schedule for a trial in March 2012.