Comment Re:Online poker may not be illegal, sending money (Score 1) 379
What *is* illegal as of the recent UIGEA act is for banks to provide you the ability to send your money to / receive money from these online gaming sites.
And, so where are the sibling indictments for the card companies and banks?
I notice that Full Tilt was taking deposits by Visa, MasterCard and AMEX. And, they were also allowing international withdrawals at global banks, like Citigroup, Bank of America, Barclays, etc. Then it would be simply a matter of pulling funds from a local U.S. branch to yield the results of the withdrawal to the linked international account.
Please, DHS, don't patronize us. Your buddies at the banks and credit card companies have been giving a blind eye to this supposedly illegal money transfer scheme when they themselves have been part and parcel to it all along, wholesale, the entire time. How does someone from the U.S. get money into a company like Full Tilt Poker to even play if the banks are not complicit?
Let's call this what it is, payback time for monied gambling interests that pull the puppet strings of our government. The Senate Majority Leader happens to harken from Nevada and also happens to have the ear of the President. (Mr. Change, aka Mr. Freedom, who renewed and escalated the Patriot Act and boldly empowered DHS with extra-judicial powers to seize private domain name property in violation of the Fifth Amendment.) There is no justice in a government that issues indictments/prosecutes/punishes based on a corrupt system of graft, nepotism and crony politics.
Welcome to the Banana Republic of America.
