Busted in Maryland: Look out, online casinos!

Busting online casino, gambling website and financial services operators will apparently be an aim of the Baltimore AFFC, neatly pigeonholing those involved in that part of the governing statute that mentions "other financial criminal cases.”

While many online casinos have closed access to paying customers in the US, such as all Playtech-powered outlets, a site known as the Golden Casino was the first biggie to come under fire, with AFFC agents essentially entrapping the outlet after an unwitting customer service agent allowed a player from within Maryland jurisdiction to play there. Agents have also conducted interviews with some of the casino’s customers.

The AFFC is part of a network that includes the Louisiana State Police and the US Customs Office.

23 September, 2009

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Said Rod J. Rosenstein upon the introduction of the task force: "Seizing and forfeiting ill-gotten gains enables us to take the profit out of crime and use the proceeds to compensate victims." Though no word on exactly how compensation and/nor how much profit may be seized was indicated, folks at online casinos could expect to forfeit “instrumentalities of crime, such as computers, vehicles and real estate."