might be a stupid question, but what is with isar scheinberg? doesnt he have similar charges?

if only this happened before WSOP Watching from the sidelines sucks.

That's exactly what it sounds like.
SrslySirius,time for a song.

How long does a phone call take?


Also pokernews say the same on there twitter. Is that also bs.

What he doesn't have is a PS employee sending out his e-mails (or maybe he doesn't send out e-mails). Nobody knows what is happening with him right now...

Uhhh... Yes. Anyone can call the DOJ's press liason and ask questions. They may or may not answer. If the DOJ has a press release coming out today (which Pokernews is reporting), they would probably go ahead and confirm it. Pokernews probably made the same call. The docket update confirms something is up. Why U so mad?

holy tiny picture. cant see anything

Why is nobody asking for another source or confirmation?

Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

edit: didn't see pokernews confirmation on 2nd page

I hope that this is good news, but mostly I still think we have no idea what's going to happen. The big questions are all still about money. I don't think Ray Bitar is going to earn enough pressing license plates to pay us back.

Someone just call 212-637-2600. That's the press office for SDNY. I'd do it but I'm at work.

Bitar 'bout to fall on his sword.

By the time this case is over, and we have our year end lame duck sweat session in the halls of congress, I will have gone through at least 5 F5 buttons.

From an outsider view it seems fairly clear that he's effectively buying his freedom. He agrees to purchase FTP, repay all players and send a huge fine on top of all of that the DoJ's way.

1. Players 'win', or at least get their money back
2. The DoJ wins. They get numerous convictions, jail time and likely in the ballpark of $1billion from confiscated property and the fines/payments from Stars.
3. Isai wins. He doesn't have to live out the remainder of his days looking over his shoulder in the Isle of Man - great for taxes, not so great for life.
4. Stars wins. They get to come off as the heroes who helped get players their money back.

The only people that lose are the stooges that thought it'd be a nice idea to steal from player accounts when their money printing company wasn't printing money fast enough to keep up with their greed.

Seems like another step in the negotiations, glad to see things still moving along track. I hope that eventually DF will pop in and provide any context that she can.

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Just called, I got confirmation.

"Yes, he did surrender."

EDIT:

I asked "Hi, I'm just inquiring about some news that Ray Bitar has surrendered to the DOJ, is this something you can confirm or should we wait to here more information?"

"Who is this?"

"I'm not affiliated with a press outlet"

"Yes, he did surrender."

It has not been confrimmed news yet. This same stuff has been going on for 14 months now. How many times have we had confrimmed news that just doesn t happen? We need DOJ to confrim this

Anyone can call. A girl answers the phone. Bitar is in NY and a press release will be out later today.

So this is why Marco of Quadjacks has been saying that Howard Lederer plans on playing in the main event. He knew players would get their money back by then.

This is genius level investigation. Keep-em coming.

Has the DOJ made any announcements? Or is this going to be the first time we so to speak directly hear from the DOJ??

So its official now that stars buy FTP? why would he write it in that letter otherwise?

i hope this doesnt mean that bitar cant eat any lobster in jail, no one deserves that kind of punishment

Payment processor got 3 months. Unlikely Ray gets zero jail.

Lobster used to be served to prisoners in jail. It was essentially considered a sea rat back in the day and not a delicacy. So maybe?