Re: Getting scAyred
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When this new bill becomes law, online poker will be illegal in the United States, and the overseas operators of the online poker sites can be extradited to the United States, prosecuted here, and sent to prison here. This is why online poker will cease to exist in the United States once this bill passes, because the poker site operators will not want to go to prison.
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Extradition? Mmmm IDK about that.. First of all, you need to have an extradition treaty with the other country, and if we do, it usually includes 2 lines:
1. The relevant crime is sufficiently serious.
2. The event in question qualifies as a crime in both countries.
Online poker isn't on anyone's 'serious crime' list, and if it isn't a crime there, then nobody's getting extradited to the US for prosecution on this.. I'd stay out of the country though,
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The Betonsports.com execs have also been charged with tax evasion, which is a crime in both Britain and the US and thus is an extraditable offense.
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