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: Dispatches from the Culture WarsPoker Players' Money Seized
By Ed Brayton
This is a strange situation. The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has frozen the bank accounts of Allied Systems, a company that processes payments for online poker sites. It's about $30 million seized at this point, but that money apparently belongs to poker players, either on deposit or payout.
The Poker Players Alliance is protesting this seizure and issued a statement about it. That letter says, in part:
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