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Originally Posted by jjjou812
Cart before the horse. The U.S. government has to be requested to extradite Russ Hamilton to a country, generally, after charges are officially filed. Do you really think the U.S. government is just going to pick him up and drop him off to Antigua or Barbuda for no reason?
I'm unaware if the U.S. and Antigua and Barbuda have an extradition treaty. I don't know if Antigua and Barbuda would bother requesting that for several possible reasons such as not believing there is any chance the U.S. would agree to do so (I don't know the terms of the extradition treaty if there is one) or perhaps they don't care enough to go through that or whatever reasons. I actually don't know for sure that they haven't already requested it or broached this topic in some way or just discussed it among themselves. But it obviously is at least much tougher for them to do anything about it because Hamilton is in the U.S.
Meanwhile the U.S. if it wanted to could attempt to prosecute Russ Hamilton right here in the U.S. I'm sure there would be jurisdiction arguments. But it is a U.S. citizen who stole a lot of money from U.S. citizens by cheating at gambling. Obviously the fact that it happened on the internet complicates jurisdiction decisions.
The truth of the matter, I think, is that nobody really seems all that interested in prosecuting Russ Hamilton ...... and if someone was going to try to, the country that would have the best shot at it would be the U.S.