Federal Government Indicts Calvin AyreFormer Online Gambling Businessman Accused of Money Laundering |
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Billionaire businessman Calvin Ayre and the online gambling enterprise he once owned have come under fire from the federal government. On Tuesday, federal prosecutors in Maryland unsealed an indictment against the Bodog Entertainment Group.
Ayre, along with James Phillip, David Ferguson and Derrick Maloney, are accused of operating an illegal gambling business involving sports betting and conspiring to commit money laundering.
The game of poker was not mentioned in the six-page indictment.
According to the Baltimore City Paper, investigation of Bodog’s business dates back at least a few years.
Ayre released the following statement via his website:
I see this as abuse of the US criminal justice system for the commercial gain of large US corporations. It is clear that the online gaming industry is legal under international law and in the case of these documents is it also clear that the rule of law was not allowed to slow down a rush to try to win the war of public opinion.
These documents were filed with Forbes magazine before they were filed anywhere else and were drafted with the consumption of the media as a primary objective. We will all look at this and discuss the future with our advisors, but it will not stop my many business interests globally that are unrelated to anything in the US and it will not stop my many charity projects through my foundation.
In April 2011, a day known in the poker community as Black Friday, the operators of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker were indictment by federal prosecutors in New York.
In May, DoylesRoom.com was seized as a result of an undercover sting by Homeland Security investigators in Maryland.
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