DoJ Goes All-In with a Very Weak Hand
The U.S. Department of Justice recently made an astonishingly bad $34 million bet.
The size of the cash isn’t the issue-$34 million is peanuts for the federal government.
The DoJ is betting that it can scare Americans out of playing poker online.
But prosecutors don’t seem to realize that they will probably lose this bet. And when they do, the decision will be read that Internet poker is legal.
The action was brought by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York-New York City. Rumors in the legal community say the DoJ in Washington D.C. did not approve, or even know, this was going to happen. Perhaps even the U.S. Attorney himself did not realize the significance of what an assistant in his office was about to do. That seems logical, since the legal theories behind the action are so weak, and the Obama Administration has a lot more important legal concerns than going after online poker players.
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