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I wonder if forensic investigation of the banks involved in Mortgage Fraud and collapsing the US economy, would show they endangered our homeland security more than all the other threats combined? Can I get a bank loan to finance this task?

They've got us bracketed.

Who said the Gestapo are extinct, they are alive an well in the USA the land of the Free? Basically the USA is at war with it's own citizens. After all when you run out of excuses to attack other countries why not turn on your own people. Time the citizens of the land of the free turn on their corrupt law agencies. You have the War on drugs, the War on Gambling, the War on same sex marriage, the Warm on abortion, the War on Sexual freedom I am sure they will can come up with more and will in short order.

F*ck you dumb a$$ government. Funny how its OK for millions of people to toss their money in the trash can playing the lottery at every single gas station in america, but we can't play poker.

Man, after the economic collapse of 2008 — with all the Wall Street-driven fraud and oil company run-away profits at the expense of average Americans — why in the heck is online gaming of any kind a big deal? I know wire fraud is really the point, and you don't mess with Uncle Sam when he wants his share, but this smells more like govt motivated by special interests such as traditional gaming rooms and Indian casinos. It's costing them hundreds of millions in business and the govt hundreds of millions in tax revenue. That's really the issue. They're not protecting the average American's interest at all. So much for hope for change.

Some DoJ member must have lost a lot of money playing poker. Now he has a bone to pick with all the sites.

No big surprise -Doyle didn't leave as fast as Duke and Helmuth but the reason remains the same.

The similarities and differences between this Maryland indictment and the NY “Black Friday” indictments are pretty interesting. On one hand, it seems like online gaming is a hot issue that the federal government is cracking down on throughout the country. In both cases the government is using federal laws that don’t actually prohibit these activities, but turn on state laws that do. On the other hand, the Maryland indictment pursues the “unlawful gambling” charge in a more straightforward way than the NY case, which focuses more on the alleged bank fraud schemes. There is further exploration of this distinction in our post at http://crimeinthesuites.com/federal-indictment-in-maryland-reflects-continuing-crackdown.

I have to concur with what Mike Masnik (TechDirt.com) said. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110521/15125114374/why-we-havent-seen-any-lawsuits-filed-against-government-over-domain-seizures-justice-department-stalling.shtml So apparently the U.S. says don't restrict our online businesses but we have jurisdiction across the world for net.

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