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FBI Arrests Neteller Execs
Alcibaides writes "In a follow-up to the 2006 law attacking Internet gambling, the FBI arrested two former Neteller executives in 'connection with the creation and operation of an Internet payment services company that facilitated the transfer of billions of dollars of illegal gambling proceeds.' Apparently, the execs were 'ambushed' as they passed through the U.S. on connecting flights. Consequently, Neteller has dropped all gambling-related activity to U.S. customers, a move not expected for several months."
Fine then - Somolia? Go fuck yourselves. We're being told we're the world's fucking policemen. You may now go back to killing off half of your population. Go wild. Don't forget to hatchet the babies. Them toddlers slice up nice for the high-holy days. Could you post it on YouTube too?
The British government will do fuck all. We (Brits) can now be extradited to the USA without any evidence of a crime having being committed. At best, if Tony Blair is feeling generous he might send the accused a tube of lube to ease their incarceration.
In the meantime, perhaps you could find someone you actually know and trust who's overseas, contrive to lose the poker money to them, and then have them "buy" from you some innocuous item which you will ship to them. Shady, but not illegal. At worst, a terms of service violation for the poker site (assuming there's a term of service that requires you to play honestly for your own benefit, rather than for the benefit of another player).
Hey.. it's not 'FBI' who arrested them. There are actual persons doing the arrests and although those persons would very much like to think of themselves only following orders and doing their job they are no less responsible. It's every time somebody doing something and not some faceless corporate or gov entity.
Now I'd like to see names of those people doing their jobs in articles like these. They report the names of arrested people, why not the names of the fuckers who are only too happy to follow all and every order gov tells them to and thus make all the stupid laws reality?
Preserve old classics: copy your collection onto all hard drives.
Your analogy is just wrong on so many levels. The company is a financial service - it trades money from one bank account to another - converting funds from one currency to another and handling all that wonderful red tape. It's legal - everywhere. Yes even here in the US.
Crime cartel killing thousands of Americans. Gun running? illegal in Cuba. Drug running? even worse in Cuba than the US. Smuggling bobble-head Hula dolls that make people just shoot themselves? Tax evasion is serious hard labor time in Cuba not Club Fed.
Also, for your information, the US doesn't want these types of financial services to stop trading with all gambling sites, just the ones they want them to. US Horse racing, US dog racing, US based sports betting, US based state lottery sites are all good. But international poker sites are bad. Antigua has already petitioned the WTO against the US because of this protectionist trade behavior, and the WTO found against the US. In November a final report was due out, and it didn't look all that good for the US. In essence the US is claiming that they can block foreign gambling sites because of 'Societal Moral Constraints' the same as Saudi Arabia can block Importing Alcahol. However, when there is an estimated $12 billion gambling industry in the US - with up to 85% (Horse & dog racing) of some portions of it being done online - it becomes an impossible stance for anyone but Bush or SCO.
So, what are these men guilty of? Oh, they transfered money from US citizens to Antiguan gambling sites. Had they transfered money from US citizens to US gambling sites, it would have been OK. For the record, Antiguan gambling companies are run under as strict or even stricter guidelines than US companies. This whole thing is crap with the Shrub masturbating with WTO treaties to satisfy some right wing nutjobs.