WiltOnTilt's PlusEVPoker.com Blog

From Friday, May 27th on http://www.plusevpoker.com 

This morning, I talked to Lisa Ward, a special agent from the Baltimore Homeland Security Investigations unit who brought the recent indictments against TruePoker, DoylesRoom, and the other sites recently.  

As I've explained in the previous post, I believe UseMyWallet/Quicktender (the last major e-wallet handling US players) was caught in the crossfire (or purposely fired at) of this recent seizure.  As of the time of this writing, I believe my funds (as well as many other poker players) are now under the control of the government as a result of the seizure of bank account number  0243058780 in the name of Chargestream Ltd at ABN AMRO Bank NV located in the Netherlands.  Here's my experience as I posted on 2+2 today:

Special Agent Ward was very nice on the phone and seemed to sincerely want to figure out what the heck happened. She reiterated to me more than once that she feels that QT is using this as an excuse to steal everyone's money.

I explained to her the way I came to believe that QT had some money seized, namely, that I withdrew funds in early april from QT and on my bank wire receipt it showed CHARGESTREAM LTD with the same back account number from the netherlands that was seized. I explained I had 26k or so in that account and now QT has closed up shop.

She told me she has my name and will be able to go through to double check to see if their fake company (linwood) has processed any of my personal withdraws. She said that would give us a good idea about what is going on and she would get back to me when she hears from some of the technical guys on the other team. It sounds like a different department than hers was doing the actual Linwood website/frontend/payment processing. I thanked per profusely for her help.

She said she had a lot of voicemails to return, but she was reasonably confident that the government doesn't have our money. I'm still skeptical just given the fact that money literally came from the exact same company/bank account as was seized. She said it is a priority of theirs to get to the bottom of this to ensure they don't have our funds.

If she comes back and says their payment company did not process any of my personal withdraws and therefore doesn't think they have any of my money, then I will try to dig deeper into what funds they think are in that chargestream account and why I would have received money from it before if it was just operating funds (and not user funds).

I'll keep everyone updated as I hear back from her.

WoT

Here's a little background information on Special Agent Lisa Ward as found in the Linwood SSW Affidavit:

Your affiant, M. Lisa Ward, has been a Special Agent with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) for twenty years. During that time, I have prepared and executed numerous state and federal search and seizure warrants, worked on Title III court-authorized intercepts, seized evidence of both state and federal violations, interviewed numerous suspects, witnesses, and informants, and evaluated evidence obtained during the course of these investigations.