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US Freezes Accounts Tied to Online Gambling at Four Banks
By Brian Monroe
printThe United States has ordered four banks to freeze $33 million tied to companies that dole out winnings to online poker players, according to an Internet gambling advocacy group. The U.S. Justice Department asked Citibank, Wells Fargo, Alliance Bank of Arizona and Goldwater Bank to freeze the accounts of two payment processors, the Washington, D.C.-based Poker Players Alliance said Tuesday. The money is tied to approximately 27,000 U.S. gamblers using four gambling Web sites, including Pokerstars.com and FulltiltPoker.com, The New York Times reported in a June 9 article. The strategy appears to be a new one for the government, and...
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