Two men indicted on Black Friday claim poker is SKILL
Two of the 11 people named in the Department of Justice’s criminal complaint filed on April 15th, 2011, after the crackdown on online poker sites operating in the United States, were in court Monday....
View ArticleBlack Friday defendants plea not guilty DOJ responds
Of the 11 people indicted on Black Friday the US Department of Justice has managed to arrest four of the men they named, and two of those men, John Campos and Chad Elie, have already been arraigned and...
View ArticleAP co-founder pleads guilty to Black Friday charges
While it’s not the first domino to fall in the Black Friday scandal, the recent guilty plea by Absolute Poker co-founder Brent Beckley could very well prove to be one of the most important. According...
View ArticleBuckley Plea Bargain may have larger impact on other Black Friday Defendants
Brent Buckley accepted a plea bargain and pleaded guilty on Tuesday to Black Friday related charges. As such, he became the first person to be convicted in connection with Black Friday. While this...
View ArticleFormer online poker payment processor to testify
In 2010 the Department of Justice made an arrest in Las Vegas that would prove to be instrumental in bringing down the online poker industry in the United States. Payment processor Daniel Tzvetkoff was...
View ArticleBlack Friday defendant Chad Elie enters guilty plea
Apparently the recent turning over of some 90,000 documents by former online poker payment processor Daniel Tzvetkoff was enough to make Chad Elie rethink his plea and change it from innocent to...
View ArticleSecond Black Friday defendant John Campos pleads guilty
Just a day after Chad Elie changed his plea from Innocent to Guilty, on one-count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud in a deal with prosecutors, his co-defendant, John Campos, did likewise. The former...
View ArticleBlack Friday Update: AGCC report, plea deals and FT sale
In place of our usual Friday Wrap weekly column I’ve decided to run a Black Friday Wrap, detailing some of the recent developments in the still-ongoing Black Friday saga that began nearly a year ago on...
View ArticleFull Tilt payment processor Nelson Burtnick surrenders
While the poker world was busy piecing together the in’s and the out’s of the announced PokerStars/Full Tilt Poker/DOJ deal on Tuesday there were a few other Black Friday headlines that were pushed to...
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