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Click image to see the 117 usernames released today by the KGC in connection with the UB cheating scandal.
They say if you have bad news, release it on Friday. And if it’s really, really bad, release it on Friday, September 11, late in the day when the Entities are only thinking about shit like who the next Friday Night Parting Shot Girl should be.
With that said, it should come as no surprise that the folks at the Kahnawake Gaming Commission did the latter in waiting to release its final decision with regard to the Ultimate Bet online poker cheating scandal.
The findings are the result of a year long investigation into the scamming of millions of dollars from players allegedly conducted by Russ Hamilton and others at Ultimate Bet from June 2003 up until December 2007. As a result of the investigation Ultimate Bet’s owner Tokwiro Enterprises has been forced to pay $1.5 million in fines and reimburse more than $22 million to the players affected by the cheating.
Most noteworthy from the report is that a total of 31 individuals other than Hamilton (who was already named a year ago) have been identified by the KGC as being associated with the cheating scam, and all names have been turned over to law enforcement authorities (who knows where though). The names have not been released publicly but all 117 usernames are included in the report (click post image to see them all).
Our hunch is that it won’t be long before some others are named publicly, including some known poker pros.
After the jump, some noteworthy nuggets from the 11-page document the KGC released (download PDF here):
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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