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A payment processor is claiming that the Everleaf Gaming Network was offered the opportunity to pay back US players but declined to do so.
Chuck Kidd, head of Costa Rica-based PICCLUB, an online payment processor, told PokerFuse.com he offered to facilitate payment to US customers through his company but that they refused.
“I made an offer directly to their CFO,” related Kidd, “that if they wanted to pay US players, they could use PICCLUB.”
Kidd also runs the Poker Pros Network, a US-facing online poker venture that had once operated on the Everleaf Gaming Network. He left Everleaf over a year ago telling Gambling911.com that Management of the company were essentially “incompetent” and “unresponsive”.
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Everleaf left the US market earlier this year after it was revealed US authorities in Washington State had seized funds from bank accounts belonging to the company. Processors Arrow Checks Inc., Blue Lake Capital Management and Logistics, and Secure Money Inc. were all cited for allegedly funneling money for various Internet gaming operators, including Everleaf, Pokerstars, UltimateBet.com, and BetUS.com. Washington is the only state in the US that holds poker players themselves criminally liable for gambling on the Internet.
Everleaf had only been paying US customers via money facilitating agents the months leading up to their abrupt exit from the US market, which resulted in suggestions that the seizures were being used as an excuse to disguise company financial woes. Everleaf continues to service markets outside the United States.
- Chris Costigan, Gambling911.com Publisher
