Online Gambling Payment Processor Gets 36 Months Behind Bars
Donald Hellinger has been sentenced to 36 years behind bars for illegally transmitting $44 million in overseas Internet gambling winnings to US citizens through a defunct Bucks Country company during the years 2005 and 2006.
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Unlike other online gambling payment processors charged over the past three years, Hellinger’s sentence was compounded due to additional alleged fraudulent activities.
His company, Payment Processing Center L.L.C., based in a mixed-use business park near Newtown, was closed in 2006 by federal regulators because of its role in an alleged telemarketing fraud that siphoned $60 million from the bank accounts of elderly victims.
Earlier in the day, Full Tilt Poker exec Nelson Burtnick, plead guilty to processing payouts for that online poker company.
Minute Entry for proceedings held before HONORABLE R. BARCLAY SURRICK: Sentencing held on 9/19/2012 for DONALD HELLINGER (1), Count(s) 2, IMPRISONMENT: 36 MONTHS, SUPERVISED RELEASE: 2 YEARS, SPECIAL ASSESSMENT: $100, FINE: $10,000. Court Reporter ESR. (ap, ) (Entered: 09/19/2012)
Minute Entry for proceedings held before HONORABLE R. BARCLAY SURRICK: Sentencing held on 9/19/2012 for RONALD HELLINGER (2), Count(s) 2, IMPRISONMENT: 27 MONTHS, SUPERVISED RELEASE: 2 YEARS, SPECIAL ASSESSMENT: $100. Court Reporter ESR. (ap, ) (Entered: 09/19/2012)
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