at least the end is near. ur tree fiddy shipped next week

i think it's really dangerous if people are judged by an indictment.
just s thought, no need to discuss or derail further.
but i couldn't help myself and had to say it. sry.

There is no chance that this that Bitar wasn't going to be made an example of. I'm fairly sure he knew the way he would be taken in by the feds and the charges and that quite simply THE MAN couldn't be seen to be given him any leeway.

You don't screw the US out of millions and walk back into America. So the fact they arrested him on the plane should not be ringing alarm bells that he has been caught out by the feds unawares.

Wondering how there is no video of him being taken off the plane. Usually after landing every is getting out there phones and someone has bound to have recorded it.

I didnt think there was a snowball in hells chance of ever seeing any Fulltilt money, but it now appears it might happen!

Any possibility is better than none, I suppose.
Why so long though? Thats what concerns me.

Bitar's ready.

I disagree.

The extradition treaty between the USA and Ireland has more loop holes than most and the USA are very conscious about upsetting Irish descendant voters that may take exception to extraditing someone from Ireland as they make up such a large % of eligible voters in many parts of the US.

He probably didn't fly commercial, and if he did, no one in first class probably knew who he was.

VERY true. Although, to be fair, he has been judged by his actions and the actions of the company he was running over the last year. The indictment only provides validity to the judgment.

/derail

" It is as important as ever that we all do everything possible to make that happen and, hopefully our deal with Poker Stars will very soon make our goal a reality. My return to the US is part of this process. "

That implies that him handing himself in would in some way move the deal with PokerStars forward. It's pretty hard to read it any other way, although his presence in Ireland obviously wasn't the only barrier.

The UK parliament's Extradition Act (2003) covers extradition between Ireland and the US. There is no treaty between the USA and Ireland. Furthermore, the Act has been criticized for making it easy to allow extradition from UK to USA but not the other way around.

Secondly, extraditing someone from Ireland is not the same as extraditing someone who is Irish. And even if it were, I have never heard of anything like this becoming an election issue.

I've already run across a ****** on another forum claiming that this proves that poker sites are rigged. So ****ing laughable.

there are certain area,s were id agree with you. but in a case like this no irish voter is gonna be upset over this.

Is that $20 US or $20 FTP?

Quietly ask them if they keep money in a bank, and then when they say yes, quietly point out any of a million high profile bank fraud cases.

This is completely


Why would he come to the US if there was no deal in place?

Presumably he fully cooperates and gets something like 6-months at club fed (or some other token punishment).

doesn't FDIC cover this?

The UK parliament extradition Act (2003) cover Northern Ireland not the Republic of Ireland

Dublin where Bitar was residing is in the latter.

Covered by this:

Ireland Extradition Treaty with the United States

Ireland International Extradition Treaty with the United States

July 13, 1983, Date-Signed

December 15, 1984, Date-In-Force

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

98TH CONGRESS

2d Session

SENATE

LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

THE WHITE HOUSE, April 18, 1984.

To the Senate of the United States:

With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, I transmit herewith the Treaty on Extradition between the United States of America and Ireland, signed at Washington on July 13, 1983.

I transmit also, for the information of the Senate, the Report of the Department of State with respect to the Treaty.

The Treaty is the first law enforcement treaty directly negotiated between the United States and Ireland. It fills a gap resulting from a 1965 change in Irish law which precludes the implementation of any applicable extradition agreements between the United States and Great Britain. The Treaty follows generally the form and content of extradition treaties recently concluded by this Government.

This Treaty will make a significant contribution to international cooperation in law enforcement. I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the Treaty and give its advice and consent to ratification.

RONALD REAGAN.

LETTER OF SUBMITTAL

DEPARTMENT OF STATE,

Washington, April 10, 1984.

The PRESIDENT,

The White House.

Very true indeed. However, if he has gone on the record to always recuse himself in the past for the same reason, and he does not do so now, it could conceivably open a new can of worms, no? I published that possibility strictly as a food for thought side note, clearly I have no idea what he might actually do.

Typically, a MESSAGE from the President to Congress doesn't have the force of law. Did you check if the Senate ratified the treaty? I believe he would have needed 2/3 of the Senate to ratify.

fyp

This needs some love.

The case is irrelevant. The case is that America walking into Ireland and lifting someone over a fraud would upset many American/Irish people who couldn't care less about this case. All they would see is the current government throwing their weight around. And it is well documented that American government through the last several decade have done anything and everything to keep the Irish on side.

This is merely my educated opinion. But I am Irish and have, as most Irish do, many Irish/American relations who would take great offense to anything of this nature.

But I think we're getting off topic

Again, I don't speak for Bitar, nor do I want to, and I can see how you get there from that statement. My position is that imo DOJ never makes Bitar surrendering part of the agreement to sell assets from themselves to a third party. Doing so potentially further causes more harm to players by their doing. I read the statement to mean that his surrender was more in the process of him trying to "fix" a wrong, and take whatever responsibility he had in this mess. Maybe someday he will tell us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ition_treaties