Feds Freeze 30 Million Of Online Poker Player Literature and Internet Sources:

• Feds Freeze Online Poker Payments | WebProNews
  10 Jun 2009 at 10:01am
  by Mike Sachoff
  Federal prosecutors have ordered four U.S. banks to freeze payments of more than $30 million owed to people who play online poker. The frozen payments are owed to 27000 online poker players at four offshore sites, ...
  
• Feds Freeze Poker Champ's Winnings | Michigan Card Player
  11 Jun 2009 at 3:44pm
  by Michigan Card Player
  Feds Freeze Poker Champ's Winnings Federal Officials Order Banks to Freeze Millions in Online Poker Winnings By RUSSELL GOLDMAN June 11, 2009- On the Sunday before Memorial Day, David made the big time. Winning $10000 in an online poker tournament ... Late last week, the federal government ordered five banks to freeze a total of $30 million in payments owed to the players from companies that process payments from two offshore gambling sites, according to the Poker Players ...
  
• United States Federal Government Freezes $30 Million in Online ...
  9 Jun 2009 at 6:41pm
  by Dan Cypra
  Over 24000 online poker players have had over $30 million frozen as part of a seizure by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. ... United States Federal Government Freezes $30 Million in Online Poker Funds .... Why do I get the feeling the government is more and more becoming the moral police? Tobacco, gambling, and gay marriage becoming more restricted… meanwhile the feds continue to raid medical marijuana dispensaries. We're going in the wrong direction ...
  
• Feds Freeze Online Poker Accounts - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
  10 Jun 2009 at 12:56pm
  by rbalko@reason.com (Radley Balko)
  In an apparent crackdown on Internet gambling, federal authorities in New York have frozen or seized bank accounts worth $34 million belonging to 27000 online poker players, according to representatives for the players and account holders. In an operation that began last week, the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New ... |6.10.09 @ 1:30PM|#. Son Of A Bitch! J sub D, Yes he did. And the titular question grows more relevant. Who's Next? reply to this ...
  
• USA Poker Players! Feds seize Poker Accounts - Online Poker Forum ...
  23 Jun 2009 at 3:00am
  by DoverPro
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players. ... Documents obtained by the AP show that a judge in the district issued a seizure warrant last week for an account at a Wells Fargo bank in San Francisco, and that a federal prosecutor told a bank in Arizona to freeze an account. ...
  
• Feds confiscate online poker winnings... - Forums
  11 Jun 2009 at 1:29pm
  by CosmicCowboy
  Late last week, the federal government ordered five banks to freeze a total of $30 million in payments owed to the players from companies that process payments from two offshore gambling sites, according to the Poker Players Alliance, ...
  
• RE: Fed Crackdown on Online Poker Money Transfers (3) PPA joins ...
  9 Jun 2009 at 6:06pm
  by DanM
  WASHINGTON, DC (June 9, 2009) – The Poker Players Alliance (PPA), the leading poker grassroots advocacy group with more than one million members nationwide, today released the following statement by PPA Chairman Alfonse D'Amato on questionable actions taken by a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York to freeze payment processor accounts containing more than $30 million in poker players' deposits and payouts. The PPA also sent a letter to the Assistant ...
  
• More Than $30 Million Frozen in Online Poker Accounts ...
  9 Jun 2009 at 6:07pm
  by C Costigan
  More information has come out Tuesday as it was now revealed that the US Government has seized some $30 million of both online poker company funds. The Poker Players Alliance told The Associated Press that the U.S. attorney for the Southern ... HEY! FEDS! It's my money not yours. If I want to play poker online, then so be it. I don't have the time to travel 2 hours, with a pocket full of cash, to the nearest Indian Casino, risking a car wreck or mugging along the way. ...
  
• Guest Post: The Prosecution's Case Against Alan Greenspan | zero hedge
  3 Sep 2010 at 5:16pm
  by Tyler Durden
  LTCM was the canary-in-the-coal-mine: What occurred in 2007–'08, and the virtual freezing of the financial markets on September 18, 2008, was a direct result of the Fed's failure to regulate the financial markets. It's what happened when the .... It wasn't Greenspan's fault that his Congessional testimony and various speeches were so famously hermetic; as a central banker, he had to maintain a poker player's dispassion, so as not to unnecessarily influence the markets. ...
  
• US Govt Seizes $30 Million from Payment Processors
  10 Jun 2009 at 9:59am
  by AintLuck.com Poker Team
  The government reportedly has frozen the accounts of a couple of payment processors which handle the winnings of online poker players which at least for the time being will prevent players from receiving their payouts. ... took checks to their bamks and as soon as they tried to cash their persoonal accounts were frozen. period. end of the hunt. so you better make sure when your telling people your hip to what is really goin on. the feds are screwing us with no kiss pals. ...