Bodog Associates Charged: 3

Edward Courdy and ZIP Payments are seeing to get a return on their seized $9,869,283.05. In any online casino related case in the United States there is often a lot of speculation and a lot of damage that can be done to the company’s reputation. There several coincidences in the cases that we have seen in regards to the two Bodog associates. Courdy and ZIP Payments were not alone in trying to get their hands on the money seized by the US Governmnent. Yet another claim for that money was filed around the same time, only this time it was in Nevada. Nevada is of course home to Las Vegas, the home of world famous brick and mortar casinos and the inspiration of many successful online casinos worldwide.
Dr. Scott Lewis’s 1st Technology, LLC has been successful previously in Nevada in a case against the online casino, Bodog. The settlements were actually a hefty $46,597,849. Not bad for a case that charged the online casino of infringing on a patent. They want to claim part of the money that is at stake in the forfeiture cases before it finalizes. There are reports that state that Michael Garone and his company JBL Services pleas no contest to the charges that were brought upon them regarding the money laundering of Bodog’s online casinos. The judge who finalized the seizures in these cases in Maryland is the U.S. District Court Judge Catherine Blake.
The Baltimore paper that first reported the filing of this lawsuits sites some pretty specific details from these online casino cases. Criminal investigator, Randall S. Carrow for the Internal Revenue Service is one of the head officers that shed light to this multi million dollar money laundering scheme from these online casinos. Another detail that was provided by the Baltimore paper is that the reason why this case is being charged in Maryland is due to the undercover agent that worked on the case being based out of Maryland. As if that was not enough trouble for the online casino, Bodog, its founder Calvin Ayre is still missing in action. He is allegedly retired in Antigua and given all of his North American business to other companies to run. Mohawk Morris Gaming Group, which is based out of Kahnawake is now in charge of this whole Bodog mess.