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The Kahnawake Gaming Commission announced today that it has formed an “Independent Monitoring Team” tasked with completing “a full forensic audit/investigation of the online gaming business” of both UltimateBet and Absolute Poker. The two scandal-ridden sites are operated by Tokwiro Enterprises, which is owned by former Kahnawake chief Joe Tokwiro Norton. Norton also founded Mohawk Internet Technologies, the so-called “utility” company that makes online poker possible in North America.
The IMT will be headed by Frank Catania (pictured), a former Assistant Attorney General and Director of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. Catania has been a longtime advocate for the regulation of online gaming and has spoken before Congress on the issue. Catania currently serves on the board of a number of gaming related businesses and has his own consulting business.
According to the release, which was signed by the KGC’s senior adviser Murray Marshall, the IMT will be empowered “to have full access to interview all employees, past or present, review all records, contact and interview all sub contractors and individuals whom the monitoring team believes necessary.”
Of course the KGC has no power to compel any past employee to make themselves avail for such interview so good luck with that.
The KGC goes on further to say that “[i]n the event that any criminal activity is found to have occurred, such activity will be reported to the appropriate authorities for possible prosecution.”
We had the chance to ask Marshall this afternoon when he thinks this could take place and he offered the below video response.
Marshall’s complete statement on behalf of the KGE after the jump . . .
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