A little over an hour after Pres. Obama gave a speech in the Rose Garden challenging Congress to repeal billions of dollars in tax breaks for "Big Oil," the Senate went against his wishes and voted down legislation authored by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) that would've done just that.
CHAD ELIE, a payment processor who worked with Internet poker companies Pokerstars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker (the “Poker Companiesâ€), pled guilty today to conspiring to commit bank fraud and operate illegal gambling businesses in connection with a scheme to deceive banks into processing hundreds of millions of dollars in Internet gambling transactions. ELIE […]