hmm interseting for poker people .. and maybe epass
 

WASHINGTON (June 9, 2009)--An advocacy group for online poker says the federal government has frozen the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players.

The Poker Players Alliance says those winnings are worth upward of $30 million.

The alliance told The Associated Press that the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York told three banks to freeze the accounts.

A document obtained by the AP shows that a judge in the district issued a seizure warrant last week for an account at a Wells Fargo bank in San Francisco.

The Justice Department has long maintained that Internet gambling is illegal, a view that the poker group challenges.




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Epass wouldnt be involved since you cant pay with it anywhere right?

epass is processing for "non-us" poker players i think still .....

gambling sites stopped taking epassporte a while back

Naw I'm from Canada and it stopped working at the same time back when.

In fact Epass made the decision to stop allowing gambling sites, not the other way around.

I had a feeling something like this was coming soon. Ever since the ruling a couple years ago, the major sites have slowly been finding work arounds for US players to make deposits. They've done so seemingly in a brazen fashion out in the open as if the government didn't care. I did read something recently where some congressman was trying to slip in an amendment to repeal much of the restrictions on US deposits.

So who are the payment processors? Have they not been named?