the climate for online casino's in the United States continue to grow more
and more heated and unforgiving as two ex-patriots who were operating an online
casino in Antigua were caught by the US government and being charged with money
laundering and illegal solicitation of bets from the united states. William
Scott a sixty-five year old and Jessica Davis a thirty-five year old, both are
now official fugitives from the country particularly after leaving the country
after their first run in with the government in 1998.
This indictment comes at a particularly tactless moment when the world trade
organization declared that the United States government did not have a right to
impose unfair trade restrictions on the country of Antigua. the government is
sticking to their charges that the couple violated the wire and travel act and
was running and illegal money laundering ring after confiscating ten million
dollar that they had in an independent bank off the coast of France.
This is only a fraction of the hundred of millions of dollars that their
online casino ventures had most likely provided them over the course of its
operation. they succeeded in using shell businesses in order to stash the
majority of their income via foreign banks with no particular allegiances. If
the two are smart the are lying low and in the lap of luxury somewhere, and
mostly likely not missing the US, you know given the "stellar" state of affairs
that it has seemed to find itself in here lately.
