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ginwilly

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Online Poker CEO Arrested for $430 Million Ponzi Scheme

Posted on: 7:47 pm, July 2, 2012

By Emily Jane Fox
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Federal prosecutors arrested Raymond Bitar, chief executive officer of online poker site Full Tilt Poker, on Monday in connection with a $430 million Ponzi scheme his site was accused of running last year.
Bitar was at John F. Kennedy International Airport, as he returned to the United States to face punishment for allegedly defrauding poker customers by lying to them about the security of their funds. He was charged with gambling, bank fraud and money laundering offenses.
As of June of last year, Full Tilt owed $300 million to players around the world but only had $6 million with which to pay them, according to the prosecutor’s office. Prosecutors said that he siphoned more than $430 million in gamblers’ winnings to board members and owners.
made me cry

1300 of that is MINE damnit.
 

Mr Neutron

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Damn technicalities...more liquor for us so ;)
lol, I WAS going to say how our whiskey and potato industries would experience great growth and we'd have plenty of recruits for all the new law enforcement agencies... but I decided not to.
 

Harrekin

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lol, I WAS going to say how our whiskey and potato industries would experience great growth and we'd have plenty of recruits for all the new law enforcement agencies... but I decided not to.
Can keep the pigs we have now? They're dumb as fuck, you have to be stupid/extremely unlucky to get done for anything here.
 

deprave

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Can keep the pigs we have now? They're dumb as fuck, you have to be stupid/extremely unlucky to get done for anything here.
They sound perfect...They will be given drones, flash bangs, tear gas, and mp40's and just start raiding people randomly play macho men. If you mean actual pigs...no all farm animals will be harvest for monsanto to clone and only mcdonalds and wal-mart will be open at reasonable hours. Welcome to America
 

Harrekin

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They sound perfect...They will be given drones, flash bangs, tear gas, and mp40's and just start raiding people randomly play macho men. If you mean actual pigs...no all farm animals will be harvest for monsanto to clone and only mcdonalds and wal-mart will be open at reasonable hours. Welcome to America
Yes BUT I'd be allowed smoke pot and play with automatic weapons in my garden...WINNING!

Plus we'd be paying ALOT less tax than we are now.
 

deprave

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Yes BUT I'd be allowed smoke pot and play with automatic weapons in my garden...WINNING!

Plus we'd be paying ALOT less tax than we are now.
IDK, does 50% of you earning go towards taxes and your middle class? Your not American until then... No one in America is allowed to smoke pot federally. Also Automatic weapons are illegal for the most part.


and someone please spare us on breaking out the charts which don't include all taxes and fees, ~50% of what I earn is gone every year when its all said and done.
 

deprave

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I mean easily 50%..to make it easy..one year I made 50k....My checks totaled 25k after taxes...I then got 1k back...I then paid 2000$ property taxes for my property of 1 bedroom house on 1 acre...and really I could stop there and just say it was just over 50% but I payed a lot more fees throughout that year not even including "invisible" ones.
 

Harrekin

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IDK, does 50% of you earning go towards taxes and your middle class? Your not American until then... No one in America is allowed to smoke pot federally.


and someone please spare us on breaking out the charts which don't include all taxes and fees, ~50% of what I earn is gone every year when its all said and done.
I pay an effective 25% rate on my income up to roughly €16k, and then roughly 50% on the balance. Fuel here is over 75% taxes, which you then apply 23% VAT to.

You Americans havnt a clue about getting fucked for taxes. We had a report recently that said after all is said and done, 45% of the population with children would have more disposable income on welfare rather than working even 50% above minimum wage.

Thats a self repeating circle of "redistributive" taxation. Avoid Welfare for those who refuse to work, automatic entitlements at 18 causes a lifetime of laziness and support MOAR the people who had been working for their whole life and have hit a bad patch.

50% of all taxes levied in this country go on welfare...that's an economy crippling figure.
 

Mr Neutron

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I pay an effective 25% rate on my income up to roughly €16k, and then roughly 50% on the balance. Fuel here is over 75% taxes, which you then apply 23% VAT to.

You Americans havnt a clue about getting fucked for taxes. We had a report recently that said after all is said and done, 45% of the population with children would have more disposable income on welfare rather than working even 50% above minimum wage.

Thats a self repeating circle of "redistributive" taxation. Avoid Welfare for those who refuse to work, automatic entitlements at 18 causes a lifetime of laziness and support MOAR the people who had been working for their whole life and have hit a bad patch.

50% of all taxes levied in this country go on welfare...that's an economy crippling figure.
Ah Utopia!
 

deprave

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Dude for single working adults we basically get an allowance of 20-50$ a day for gas and a happy meal with a new shiney toy from Uncle sam if we do our chores lol...75% sounds nice.
 

Harrekin

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Ah Utopia!
Wanna know the best part? Iv been in my current job 8 years paying taxes, if I lost it, I'm not eligible for anything because my missus earns over the threshold.

Talk about awarding laziness and screwing people who deserve a hand, no?
 

Mr Neutron

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Wanna know the best part? Iv been in my current job 8 years paying taxes, if I lost it, I'm not eligible for anything because my missus earns over the threshold.

Talk about awarding laziness and screwing people who deserve a hand, no?
You do have a lot of American corporations that have moved over there. I guess they are getting all the tax breaks, huh?
 

Harrekin

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Dude for single working adults we basically get an allowance of 20-50$ a day for gas and a happy meal with a new shiney toy from Uncle sam if we do our chores lol...75% sounds nice.
Yeah you get to keep 75% of anything under 16k, however most people earn over 16k and as such 50% of anything over this figure is confiscated to be given to someone else.

Given welfare is 50% of our budget, that means someone else gets 25% of my money over 16k.
 

deprave

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Yeah you get to keep 75% of anything under 16k, however most people earn over 16k and as such 50% of anything over this figure is confiscated to be given to someone else.

Given welfare is 50% of our budget, that means someone else gets 25% of my money over 16k.
yea I just re-read your post, that is fucked. No wonder everyone is at the bar.
 
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