Two Charged With Money-laundering In Connection With Bodog

Federal authorities have charged two men with money-laundering in connection with its ongoing investigation into free casino giant Bodega.

In January and February of this year, after a two-year investigation, the IRS seized about $14.2 million from JBL Services, according to court documents filed in federal court in Baltimore. In July, it seized about $9.87 million from Zip Payments.

According to court documents filed in the U.S. District Court in Baltimore, Md., last month, Edward Cordy transmitted money on behalf of Zip Payments and Michael Garold transmitted money on behalf JBL Services.



Courdy is charged with transferring just over $2.38 million in April from Dublin to a Nevada State Bank account held by Zip Payments, and from there to Maryland and elsewhere for the purposes of conducting an illegal gambling business. Garold is charged transferring nearly $1.5 million from Frankfurt, Germany to a bank in Georgia held by JBL Services, and from there to Maryland and elsewhere for the purposes of conducting an illegal gambling business.

In July, Bodog said the seizures didn't affect business for the popular gambling site.

During the course of the investigation, IRS Special Agent Randall Arrow became intimately familiar with the ways the online online gambling handled paying their customers.

"Not one single player failed to get paid when this processor (JBL Services) was disrupted," said Alwyn Morris, chief executive officer of Morris Mohawk Gaming Group, which assumed ownership and operation of Bodega in North America in mid-2007.

"To continue to make 'payouts' to gamblers, some online casinos operators have begun using money processing businesses in the United States," Arrow explained. "Based on my training and experience, I know that, typically, the gambling web site operator will send a U.S. processor a check or wire transfer of a relatively large sum of money, usually hundreds of thousands or million of dollars. The processor then distributes the money to individuals, either by check or electronic transfer of some type. None of the transfers identify the money involved as gambling proceeds."

"Because of various developments (Department of Justice prosecutions and new federal legislation), it has become more and more difficult for Internet gambling web site operators to move money into and out of the United States," Arrow said in an affidavit supporting the seizures back in July.

67-year-old Canadian Wins WPT Title

NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario As reported by The Niagara Falls Review: "Glen Whiter may have looked out of place Thursday, but he proved he belonged exactly where he was.

"The 67-year-old man from Waterloo won the $1.22 million winner's purse at the World Poker Tour's North American Poker Championship held at the free online casino Grand Hall.


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"It's always exciting when the European Poker Tour visits a new destination and we have wanted to hold an EPT in Portugal for some time, so we are delighted that so many players took part including 63 players from Portugal," said EPT spokesperson Kristy Thompson. "It's been a superb week of poker."

The casino game has added full screen video and also upgraded their live roulette game to feature a full history.Matias beat 67-year- old retired Belgian businessman and Poker Stars qualifier Pierre Neville heads up to book the win. Neville bubbled the final table at EPT San Rome last season.


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"It took seven and a half hours to work down from six players to one Thursday night, as one-by-one the more experienced professionals at the table were eliminated by the virtually unknown amateur from Waterloo. Whiter clinched the title around 11:30 p. m. Thursday when he knocked off Gavin Smith, a long time professional who has earned more than $3 million playing in tournaments. The Las Vegas resident Smith, who is originally from Guelph and wore a Team Canada hat at the taped-for-television final table, went all in with a pair of fives and lost to an ace, king when the river card turned up another ace to give Whiter the high pair.