Calvin Ayre indicted, Bodog.com domain grabbed, but business is as usual

Bodog is surely  one of the primary names in on-line gaming since they have been working from the middle of the 90's. Unluckily, they’re such a big name that the us Department of Homeland Safety has been making a case against Bodog. This these days resulted in the seizure of the domain name Bodog.com, that was reported by CalvinAyre.com.

The very good news is that Bodog.com isn’t definitely that essential to the company’s operation since American players use Bovada Poker now; those outside of the U. S. make use of the domain name Bodog.eu. Thus it does not definitely make much sense that the Department of Homeland Security would waste their time confiscating this web-site name.

As for Bodog founder Calvin Ayre’s ideas on the issue, he was quoted as saying, “Not certain what to say. BodogBrand.com is a brand-licensing firm based outside the united states. The brand left the market last year and the domain in question has been dormant worldwide more than that.” He added, “We are just presently doing brand licensing deals outside the us therefore this domain had no spot in any of our current plans.”

Bodog founder Calvin Ayre has been indicted by federal prosecutors in Baltimore and the Bodog.com website name has been grabbed by the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.

In the indictment unsealed these days, Ayre, James Phillip, David Ferguson and Derrick Maloney are faced with doing a gambling business as well as money laundering. Rod Rosenstein, the U.S. Attorney in Baltimore, claims that the defendants "did intentionally and illegitimately perform finance, control, supervise, direct, and posses all or part of an unlawful gambling business, to wit, a gambling business including on-line sports betting."

"Sports betting is illegal in Maryland, and federal law forbids bookmakers from flouting that law mainly because they're found outside the country," mentioned Rosenstein. "Numerous of the damages which underline gambling prohibitions are exacerbated once the companies function over the internet with out regulation."

The indictment alleges that Bodog communicated with two processors to facilitate payments with bettors. The processors named in the indictment were JBL Assistance, which allegedly processed a minimum of $43 million, and ZipPayments, which allegedly processed at least $57 million. Money from each those processors was previously grabbed by the IRS back in 2008.

Ayre responded to the indictments with a statement on his web-site, CalvinAyre.com.

“I see this as abuse of the U.S. criminal justice system for the industrial obtain of big U.S. corporations," he mentioned. "It is apparent that online black jack sector is legal under worldwide law and in the case of all of these documents is it furthermore clear that the rule of law wasn't permitted to slow down a rush to attempt to attempt to win the war of public opinion."

Guests that log onto Bodog.com are welcomed with a Department of Justice seizure notice similar to the one that was plastered on the house pages of PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker and UB.com back on April 15, 2011. However, the real difference in this notice is that it was given by the Department of Homeland Security and not the Federal bureau of investigation.

The seizure shouldn't affect the short-term business of Bodog. The Bodog.com website name hasn't been in make use of since late last year. That domain name had recently been switched to Bodog.eu and American gamers have been able to access Bovada.lv since December. Both of those web pages are up and running as always.