In what’s been dubbed Black Friday for the online poker industry, federal prosecutors in Manhattan have indicted 11 people linked to some of the world’s largest Web-based poker operators and have moved to shutter their companies and seize their assets in the United States.
Among those charged by the Justice Department Friday afternoon with operating illegal gambling businesses: Isai Scheinberg and Raymond Bitar, the founders of PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker, respectively. In a sweeping 52-page indictment, Scheinberg and Bitar, as well as nine other defendants, including Absolute Poker founders Scott Tom and Brent Beckley, are accused of bank fraud, money laundering, and other gaming-related offenses.
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