7 People Arrested for Online Credit Processing

[Mitch Evans]

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This is about the DOJ going after credit card merchants that enable funding of gambling sites. Period.

I guarantee these people would have been treated the same if they were illegally helping to fund poker sites only. The DOJ is not going to make a distinction.


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Slow down a bit. This is about the DOJ going after companies specifically set up to fraudulently launder credit card money. I doubt they're even making any distinction between gambling and non-gambling. This is a pretty textbook RICO case, and it seems to me that if the facts are reported correctly, they deserve to get hit by the full brunt of it. When DOJ goes after credit card processors who fund online gambling non-fraudulently, maybe I'll start worrying.


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Thanks for pointing this out. I was focused on this as more anti-gambling (with the book being thrown at them) then money laundering (with the book being thrown at them) which was probably a mistake. Appreciate your input.

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So you're saying that even though they are laundering money, the gov won't bust them because it's going to poker sites and poker is not defined as of yet?


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see above.

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I guess you got me... I probably should have brought up the fact that it's money laundering and regardless if it's for poker or not, they got busted for money laundering. Me and my sarcastic rhetorical questions....