Feds seize gambling site Bodog, indict founder

WELL LOOK AT THE BRITE SIDE<THEY PAID OVER $100 million to there customers ,,when you win money and dont get paid ,,your blood pressure will hit 150/99,,

How come our government can bully foreign companies and arrest their citizens?  If websites are located outside the U.S., then the most that should be allowed is to stop that website from coming within the U.S. borders.  If our government can prove that someone owed taxes on their winnings, they should collect the taxes from those gamblers. If the people doing the gambling broke the law, they should have their day in court.  We should have no arrest powers for foreign citizens unless they physically entered the U.S., committed a crime and then sought refuge in a foreign country.

Certainly Canada was not trying to impose some kind of socialist behavior on U.S. citizens as a previous poster seemed concerned about.

I have to say I hope these guys all get away scot free. They weren't FORCING these gamblers to spend their money or gamble online.

So if they hadn't dealt with gamblers in Maryland 'and elsewhere', could the Feds have even arrested them?

I think the Feds should go after real criminals...

They committed crimes within the US. The fact that they themselves werent in the US is irrelevant. Though they weren't physically present in the US,  they conducted their illegal gambling business in the US by way of the website, transferring money into the US, and perhaps other means.

So, these guys violate the laws of states in the US, and you think they should get a pass?  Pull your head out; they broke the law, they pay the penalty.  It's just that simple.

It's all comparitive. Look at the crimes others have committed, including our own banks and even worse our government, and get back to me. Maybe scot free is a bit too easy on them, but they arent scamming people or hurting anyone.Pull YOUR head out, wake the feck up, and go back to church. Oh, and why are you even on this site? Do you even support online gambling? Or gambling at all for that matter?

I love all the clueless people that post on here.

The Feds, you know the CIA and FBI are literally swarming and overrun with Mormons and I think we know which party the Mormons belong too. 

Don't strain your brain too hard, but you can look it up for yourself. 

Mormon controlled FBI, CIA and President and then you will really see some fun times in this country. 

The Feds tend to do their own thing, regardless of who is President and Jesus Christ get real, Ron Paul? That dude has not won a single primary in his life and has not even come close to winning one. I constantly read you people talking about Ron Paul 2012 but somehow you don't seem to go out and vote. You do know that is how the electoral process actually works right? And if by some miracle of miracles Ron Paul actually became President, he could never get any of his pipe dream bills passed anyway. You do know for a law to actually get passed it has to get passed in the Senate and the House and then approved by the President? He just does not walk in with a magic wand and pass these magic bills all by himself. 

The lobbyists actually run this country, if you have a problem with a particular law, you might want to take it up with them.

I say the U.S. government should block that website so our citizens cannot access it.  Their website is located outside the U.S. and is legal in Canada.  If it is illegal here, then it should be up to the government to "protect" us.  Why put the burden on the website owners and subject them to being arrested?  It should be relevant where the owners are located.  If they set foot inside our borders, then we should have jurisdiction, not before.

Why hasn't there been any indictments for the mortgage fiasco????

I agree with you 100% and then some.   WHAT about the Savings and Loan, the mortgage flip/flop,  the illegal signing of the foreclosure papers with "John Doe's" and all the other corruption in government?  WHO is going to jail for that?    WE the People suffer because the Government decides who goes to jail, but they are exempt? 

The elected officials are ''allowed'' insider trading, its against the law but no one stops the people we send to office to serve the public interests from doing it and their friends and families too.  How do you think they got so rich with a job that would take them 50 years to become rich?  Uhmmm???   

What about the guy that stole money and gave it to the Tea Party?   Didn't give much from the 340 million that he stole, but I didn't hear that they gave the money back. 

Don't get me started on the Pac Fund or the Court's decision that a corporation is an individual with the same rights as you and me........

God help us all!

I could go on, but it gives me a headache.....A bad one.

I agree.

It just seems to keep getting worse.

We need regime change in the White House and the Senate.

Power to the People!

I've never won a thing on Bodog, so I could care less.  Games seemed rigged, no wonder Calvin Ayre was making so much money, lol.