Canada's "Prince of Pot" To Serve Five Years

[Brunhuber]

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/st...d89&k=19587

Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun
Published: Monday, January 14, 2008

VANCOUVER - Marc Emery, Vancouver's self-styled Prince of Pot, has tentatively agreed to a five-year prison term in a plea bargain over U.S. money laundering and marijuana seed-selling charges.

Facing an extradition hearing Jan. 21 and the all-but-certain prospect of delivery to American authorities, Emery has cut a deal with U.S. prosecutors to serve his sentence in Canada. He also hopes it will save his two co-accused - Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams, who were his lieutenants for so much of the past decade.

The three were arrested in August 2005 at the request of the United States and charged even though none had ventured south of the border. Since then, they have been awaiting the extradition hearing. With the proceedings about to begin, Emery says his lawyer brokered the best deal possible.

If accepted by the courts in both countries, Emery said he will serve the full term and not be eligible for Canada's lenient get-out-of-jail-early rules.

"I'm going to do more time than many violent, repeat offenders," he complained. "There isn't a single victim in my case, no one who can stand up and say, 'I was hurt by Marc Emery.' No one."

He's right. Whatever else you may think of Emery - and he grates on many people, what is happening here is a travesty of justice. Emery's case mocks our independence as a country. Prosecutors in Canada have not enforced the law against selling pot seeds and all you need do is walk along Hastings Street between Homer and Cambie for proof.

There are numerous stores selling seeds and products for producing cannabis. Around the corner, you'll find more seed stores. You'll find the same shops in Toronto and in other major Canadian cities.

The last time Emery was convicted in Canada of selling pot seeds, back in 1998, he was given a $2,000 fine. Emery has flouted the law for more than a decade and every year he sends his seed catalogue to politicians of every stripe.

He has run in federal, provincial and civic elections promoting his pro-cannabis platform. He has championed legal marijuana at parliamentary hearings, on national television, at celebrity conferences, in his own magazine, Cannabis Culture, and on his own Internet channel, Pot TV.

Health Canada even recommended medical marijuana patients buy their seeds from Emery. From 1998 until his arrest, Emery even paid provincial and federal taxes as a "marijuana seed vendor" totalling nearly $600,000.

He is being hounded because of his success. The political landscape has changed dramatically as a result of Emery's politicking for cannabis. Emery challenged a law he disagrees with using exactly the non-violent, democratic processes we urge our children to embrace and of which we are so proud.

But along the way he has angered the anti-drug law-enforcement community - the same gang that insists we must continue an expensive War on Drugs that has failed miserably for more than a quarter century and does more harm than good.

Canadian police grew so frustrated that neither prosecutors nor the courts would lock up Emery and throw away the key, they urged their U.S. counterparts to do the dirty work. And that's what's wrong.

Emery is being handed over to a foreign government for an activity we are loath to prosecute because we don't think it's a major problem. His two associates were charged only as a way of blackmailing him into copping a plea.

It's a scandal.

Emery is being made a scapegoat for an anti-cannabis criminal law that is a monumental failure. In spite of all our pricey efforts during the last 40 years, and all the demonization of marijuana, there is more pot on our streets, more people smoking dope and more damage being done to our communities as a result of the prohibition.

There is a better way and every study from the 1970s Le Dain Commission onward has urged change and legalization.

Regardless of what you think of Emery, he should not be facing an unconscionably long jail term for a victimless, non-violent crime that generates a shrug in his own country. Emery is facing more jail time than corporate criminals who defrauded widows and orphans and longer incarceration than violent offenders who have left their victims dead or in wheelchairs.

And while he has long seemed to court martyrdom, Emery is by no means sanguine about what is happening. He is angry at local lawyers for failing to come up with a viable defence.

"They had two years and $90,000 and they came up with nothing," he fumed. "John Conroy called me up and said 'take the deal - Michelle will die in jail. Michelle will die in jail!' What can I say to that?"

Rainey, who has a medical exemption to smoke marijuana, has Crohn's disease. Incarceration in the U.S. would deprive her of her medicine, and she fears it could lead to her death.

"It's an ugly situation but Marc expects miracles," Kirk Tousaw, one of the lawyers involved, told me. "There aren't any here."

He's right. Our extradition law puts Canadian citizens at the mercy of foreign governments and judges can't do much about it. Emery is being forced to accept a deal because not only are two of his friends in jeopardy if he doesn't, but also to go south for an unfair trial would mean serving as much as 20 years in prison, perhaps more.

One of his friends, for example, was handed a 30-year sentence for growing 200 plants. This is wrong.

If Emery has been breaking the law and must be jailed, our justice department should charge him and prosecute him in Canada. It's time for Justice Minister Rob Nicholson to step in and say, sorry, Uncle Sam, not today - not ever.

[Paddy]

May not have much to do with online gambling, but in a way it does. The very same situation applies to Old Pink Ass. He's breaking both Canadian and American law, but the Canadians are letting him get away with it. So far. As they do with Emery.

It's all about Canadian sovereignty.

Here's a pretty explanatory article in the Cold Eye.

[Southpaw]

Was he shipping his seeds across the border? If so, what did he expect from the US?

[Paddy]

Was he shipping his seeds across the border? If so, what did he expect from the US?[/b]

The question is, what does he expect from Canada, a sovereign country, or so we are told. What he expects from Canada is what all Canadians expect. That is that if shipping seeds to the US is a crime, it must also be a crime in Canada, and he should be prosecuted here, where he would get a $200 fine. If he is prosecuted here, for the same thing, he can't be extradited.

58% of Canadians don't want Emery extradited to the US. We basically say the US can fuck itself on its Drug War and cannot use the terms of an extradition treaty that is in place for serious crimes, not selling pot seeds, to retaliate against Emery for political reasons.

Another version of your question could be "Were the Americans engaged in illegal war in Iraq and Afghanistan and bombing and murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people? If so, what did they expect from the Iraquis?"

Marc Emery has never set foot on US soil in any of this. The sooner the US learns that US law stops at the US border and that what the citizens of other countries do in those other countries is a matter for the law of those other countries, the sooner the US is going to be facing a less dangerous world. Pretty well all Canadians would be outraged if this bullshit deal went through, some may very likely begin their own private war against US interests, both here and in the US.

[Calvin]

Oh, this story is relevant to online gambling!

I'm thinking of going back up to Canada and seeing if I can come up with an agreement similar to the one that Mark made with the DOJ! Five years without parole beats the hell out of ten or fifteen in the USA.

Mark should never have taunted the Yanks the way he did. And this ludicrous claim that he's smoked 8000 ounces of weed? He lost so much credibility over that, and people started to ridicule him for not controlling his urges! And believe me, ridicule is not fun!

I just hope I don't end up in the same jail! Because that man re-defines "preening gas-bag"! And that jail wouldn't be big enough for a couple of dudes with egos as big as dirigibles!

Ah, hell, maybe I'll just keep laying low here in Antigua. I can say on my blog that I go everywhere, and who's to know?

Pool-Boy! Get me a drink! And make it a triple!

[Southpaw]

Paddy, if I was shipping guns to Canada while my local law enforcement turned a blind eye, do you think Canada might have a problem with that?

[Calvin]

Paddy, if I was shipping guns to Canada while my local law enforcement turned a blind eye, do you think Canada might have a problem with that?[/b]

The truth is your local law enforcement does turn a blind eye to that and to people shipping cocaine to Canada. The reason is that US gun producers need markets and US bullet producers need bullets to be fired, otherwise nobody needs bullets and guns. So stopping gun shipments to Canada, of which there are many, isn't a US law enforcement priority because many US citizens don't see it as a priority. And if Canada were to identify some gun shipper in the US and asked for his extradition, well, good luck to Canada.

Similarly with cocaine, we had a show on our version of 60 Minutes up here about why it was that so much effort went into stopping BC Bud going south, while the Yanks didn't seem to bother their arses about coke coming up here. The reason is that when coke comes up here, Canadians leave money in the US economy, and replace the money the Mexicans took out when they smuggled the coke in in the first place. Why would America go to the trouble and expense of stopping what at its core is beneficial to America.

Canadians share common views about things like the seriousness of murder and rape and robbery and violent crimes and crimes which affect economies and business relations like fraud and stock market swindling, that sort of thing. But we have vastly different views on the seriousness of marijuana use and distribution. There is no more validity to the US view on marijuana than there was to the Nazi view on the superiority of the Aryan race and the inferiority of the Jews and the trouble they supposedly caused in the world. Those bizarre ideas are exactly on the same intellectual value level. They are rubbish. And both of them are enforced at the point of a gun and by vast prison systems and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of human lives.

Canada doesn't have such a view. We are probably the most informed and tolerant nation on earth when it comes to marijuana. Marc Emery is part of the political life of this country and also part of what little color there seems to be in our public discourse. The police turn a blind eye to what he does because the courts reflect the views about the seriousness of selling pot seeds in the minds of most Canadians. We consider it to be less serious than jaywalking. Jaywalking does kill people, selling pot seeds doesn't. It is part of the essential sovereignty of each Canadian that we may hold that view, and that that view is reflected in the priorities of our police and the decisions of our judges.

When this sort of monstrous intrusion of American law slithers over our border and into the lives of Canadians, we don't give a fuck what the US government thinks. We are concerned for our sovereignty and our right to hold different views and for our law to respect and reflect those views.

We see ourselves being asked to give up our first three Jews to 21st century Nazis. And we see some Vichy like collaborators within our own police and our own government working to facilitate that without the approval of the vast majority of the Canadian people.

Who could blame some of our citizens if they resolved to respond to this threat with violence, both towards the US and the traitors to our own country and sovereignty within our country?

[Paddy]

I couldn't have said it better myself.

[Brunhuber]

Emery more principled than those who oppose him
Prince of Pot has second thoughts about plea bargain, likely won't abandon co-accused friends
Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun
Published: Monday, January 21, 2008

Marc Emery, Vancouver's Prince of Pot, triggered headlines around the globe by revealing his tentative five-year plea bargain with the U.S. over money laundering and drug charges.

Still, his wife Jodie urged everyone to remember that although he has tentatively agreed to the deal proposed by the U.S., it is by no means finalized.

The deal had not been signed by both countries, Emery and the courts. And the U.S. has not yet agreed to drop the charges against Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams, two of Emery's friends who are co-accused. He has made their freedom a condition of his "guilty" plea.

Emery could also change his mind before today's extradition hearing in B.C. Supreme Court -- throw caution to the wind and battle tooth-and-nail against the U.S. request, which is a product of Emery's mail-order seed-sale business in the U.S.

I doubt it.

Emery is a principled man -- far more so than those who disagree with him.

If he can save his friends, he will. If not, well....

I think what is happening is an outrage.

Emery is being handed over to the Americans for selling seeds at a time when the marijuana law in Canada is problematic at best.

In Ontario, judges have found the failure of the government to provide marijuana to the sick invalidates the present criminal law against at least possession.

It's a conclusion that flows directly from previous Supreme Court of Canada decisions.

If sick and suffering Canadians are prevented from getting the safe and effective medicine they need -- marijuana -- by a criminal law, that statute is unconstitutional.

In Victoria, a B.C. Supreme Court trial and in Sechelt, a Provincial Court trial are under way involving precisely this question.

"The government can only make simple possession, and possibly cultivation and trafficking, illegal if it has a constitutional medical marijuana program [that works]," said Kirk Tousaw, a lawyer involved in both cases as well as Emery's.

"It may well be that, as in 2003, marijuana possession is legal in Canada. Of course that doesn't mean that police will stop enforcing the possession law right away, or that the Crown will stop prosecuting, so people would do well to be cautious in their reaction. That said, it is an exciting time for marijuana law reform in Canada."

Unless you're Marc Emery.

I can't imagine what he's feeling as the effects of his 14-year-long crusade bears fruit and he faces a medieval jail sentence.

Some of the discourse around his predicament must rile, if for no other reason than its surreal quality.

Consider, for instance, Marlene Jennings, Liberal justice critic, fuming with outrage:

"You can't blame him [for trying to cut a deal] when he's up against the Conservative government that's basically telling the states, 'Do what you want, we're not going to fight it. We're not going to prosecute, we're not going to bring criminal charges, but we'll let you do it. We'll let you do the dirty work for us. And then we'll stand by with our arms crossed.'"

Too bad it was the previous Liberal administration of ex-prime minister Paul Martin back in 2005 that set this injustice in motion.

[Peep]

US has the guns, Canada has maybe one tank.

US does what they want, US says suck on it, Canadian government asks how long and how hard.

End of story.

As Bill Gates puts it "Life is unfair, get used to it".

All government blow, but I must admit I like the CR one best of any I have seen. When I was down there, they had two of their last three presidents in jail and were working on the third.

No standing army, so no revolutions, free University for everyone.

[Paddy]

US has the guns, Canada has maybe one tank.

US does what they want, US says suck on it, Canadian government asks how long and how hard.

End of story.

As Bill Gates puts it "Life is unfair, get used to it".

All government blow, but I must admit I like the CR one best of any I have seen. When I was down there, they had two of their last three presidents in jail and were working on the third.

No standing army, so no revolutions, free University for everyone.[/b]

Peep,

There are many ways of fighting besides guns and tanks. And I am very sure that some Canadians are going to take up a form of fighting against the US over this and that it will have major long term implications for the relationship between Canada and the US.

As for your Bill Gates quote, if he'd ever said that most Irish people, they'd have told him to fuck himself, that he could get used to it if he wanted, but they were going to fight back.

This is about a minority of Canadians, mostly the far Christian right, one world, one God crackpots who do want America's law to become operative in Canada, because America's law is more and more what religious crackpots there want. Canadian sovereignty is lost simply because Canada's justice minister, some foul cocksucker from southern Ontario named Nicholson, is a traitor and cooperating with the US department of justice to silence Emery.

Had an Irish minister of justice considered sending an Irish citizen in similar circumstances to the US, he'd have been shot dead long ago. And that is the way it should be everywhere. Ireland routinely tells the US to get fucked on extradition requests.

[Brunhuber]

Ottawa rejects Prince of Pot's plea deal with U.S.
No explanation given for deal to let Marc Emery do time in Canadian jail
Ian Mulgrew, Vancouver Sun
Published: Friday, March 28, 2008

VANCOUVER -- A tentative deal between Marc Emery, Vancouver's Prince of Pot, and the U.S. government over money-laundering and drug charges has been nixed by Ottawa.

Emery says the Conservative administration has refused to go along with a proposal that would have seen him spend five years behind bars for selling marijuana seeds through the mail.

Under the defunct pact, Emery was to plead guilty on both sides of the border and accept a sentence of 10 years imprisonment on the understanding he would serve half, mostly in Canada.

"All that was required for this deal was a rubber stamp from the federal government," Emery told me late Thursday. "They have, instead, rejected the deal without explanation ... it is clearly political."

Full story here. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/st...b0d&k=81264

[Grand Slam]

So what does this mean...hee's getting extradicted to the US for trial?

[Brunhuber]

So what does this mean...hee's getting extradicted to the US for trial?[/b]

It looks like Canada's Conservative government, for whatever reasons, has tired of Emery's "I'm a martyr/I'm the victim" chest-pounding to any media that will listen, and will go along with Emery's plan to become a martyr.

Frankly, the man is an insufferable blow-hard, who never quite got the idea that pot-smokers didn't need a hero, they didn't need someone to fight a fight that never existed, and has only ever used the whole fucking non-issue here in Canada to massage his massive ego. He's a nut-job.

Having said that, he doesn't deserve to serve more than a few months in jail.

I find it very self-serving on Emery's part to keep bleating about how he'll take the rap just to save his co-accused from any jail-time. That's bullshit. In Emery's mind, there's only room for one "hero" in his little movie!

The US has agreed to a plea-bargain of a few months for the other two. An old-time con would call that a sock-change and a cup of coffee! Anyone who wants to fashion themselves as committed to a cause should be able to do a few months in jail while standing on their head!

It's a good thing this goof wasn't asked to appear on the cover of Forbes Mag. as part of a story about illegitimate business. It could have caused the collapse of the entire marijuana biz in North America!

And yes, GS, extradition seems likely. Emery should have known it was time to fold!

[Paddy]

There is a hearing in the BC Court of Appeal on April 11 to rule on whether a private Canadian prosecution launched against the BC3 should be allowed to go ahead without the federal government prosecutors interfering with it. If that prosecution goes ahead, the extradition cannot go ahead.

Have to wait and see what the BC Court of Appeal says.

[Brunhuber]

ColdEye's being modest. Here's the real story!


Federal Government Intervenes in Provincial Case; Determined To Extradite BC3
by Darren Davidson (16 Jun, 2006)

Paddy Roberts promises appeal of his case aimed at keeping Justice Department out of his private charge against pot seed seller Marc Emery

Provincial charges could keep the BC3 in Canada
Provincial charges could keep the BC3 in Canada
A Winlaw man is vowing to continue his fight against Ottawa in a bid that could make or break the Bush administration's plans to extradite B.C. pot seed king Marc Emery to face charges in the U.S. Paddy Roberts says he and Nelson lawyer Don Skogstad will be appealing a B.C. Supreme Court judge's decision to dismiss a motion that would have barred the federal attorney general from taking control of a conspiracy case Roberts has launched against Emery and two co-accused.

The trio are facing extradition to the States on charges of conspiracy to launder money and distribute marijuana and marijuana seeds. Conviction on the charges would carry a sentence of at least 12 years.

Roberts called Justice Robert Crawford's ruling nonsense. The decision was made two weeks ago in Nelson. "The United States government got the decision they wanted," Roberts told the NDN. "There was nothing in statutory law that supported Justice Crawford's position. The Criminal Code of Canada does not allow the Attorney General of Canada to intervene in these proceedings."

Roberts and Skogstad are trying to keep the feds out of the case because of their expectation that Ottawa will try and stay the pair's proceedings against Emery, clearing the way for his extradition. International law states that a person can't be tried in one country if he or she is facing identical charges in another. The charges Roberts has brought before Emery and co-accused Michelle Rainey and Greg Williams are essentially the same as those the U.S. have pressed.

The chairman of the nationalist Bloc British Columbia party and a well-known watchdog of the RCMP and judicial system, Roberts admits that the ruling would have been appealed by either he or federal prosecutors, depending the Crawford's decision. His appeal will be filed with the B.C. Court of Appeal. In all likelihood, the final ruling on Roberts' fight to keep Ottawa out of the Emery case will be settled in the Supreme Court of Canada, a process that will take at least a couple of years, Roberts estimates. "And nobody's going anywhere until this is settled."

According to the Globe and Mail, the federal Department of Justice tried to dismiss the charge earlier this year, but Roberts filed a legal motion that argued a Criminal Code offence, such as conspiracy to violate the laws of another country, may only be prosecuted by provincial Crowns. The province has said it has no stand on the case.

In an oral ruling released on the eve of the long weekend the Globe noted, Crawford sided with the arguments put forward by the federal government. The judge found that since the alleged conspiracy is drug-related, the prosecution is within the jurisdiction of the federal Justice Department.

"It seems quite clear that it gives the United States government, through the agency of the federal Minister of Justice, approval to interfere in the administration of justice in B.C.," Roberts told the Globe. "Normally our courts are not supposed to render judgements based on political considerations," Roberts added. "It wouldn't have taken the judge more than half an hour to write a decision granting the prohibition, and that decision would have been unappealable. But that didn't happen."

The federal Justice Department in Vancouver has refused comment on the case.


• Story from the Nelson Daily News on Wednesday, June 7th 2006
• Contact: news@nelsondailynews.com

• Discussion about this story and comments from Paddy Roberts are ongoing here in the Cannabis Culture Forums


UPDATE: Appeal Filed by Paddy Roberts

"This is the main body of the Notice of Appeal relating to Justice Crawford's denial of our motion to prohibit the AG of Canada from interfering in the Nelson charges. BC Attorney General Wally Oppal is being served with this Notice and may now intervene to assert his proper constitutional role." –Paddy Roberts

COURT OF APPEAL

PATRICK ROBERTS
Appellant

Vs.

THE HONOURABLE IRWIN COTLER
ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR CANADA
Respondent

Date of Judgement Appealed From: May 19, 2006
Justice: Mr. Justice Crawford, British Columbia Supreme Court


TAKE NOTICE that the appellant appeals against the judgement of the Honourable Mr. Justice Crawford on grounds involving questions of law alone. The grounds for appeal are:

1. That the learned justice erred in law in his conclusion that the Attorney General of Canada is empowered under section 579.1 of the Criminal Code to intervene in the private prosecution initiated by the Appellant on August 8, 2005 and charging Marc Scott Emery, Gregory Keith Williams, and Michelle Rainey-Fenkarek with three counts each of conspiracy to violate United States law contrary to section 465 (1) © of the Criminal Code.

The relief sought is:

1. An order prohibiting the Attorney General of Canada from interfering in the aforesaid private prosecution in any manner whatsoever in the continuation of the prosecution already launched, or in the event the Appellant chooses to lay a fresh Information, from interfering in any proceedings relative to that fresh Information.

2. The Appellant further seeks an order of this Honourable Court directing the clerk of the Provincial Court of British Columbia at Nelson, British Columbia to remove the stay of proceedings of January 27, 2006 and to reschedule the Information for a process hearing before His Honour Judge Sperry, in the event that the Appellant has not commenced another proceeding with a fresh Information prior to judgement on this matter.
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And his critics thought he was a one-trick pony, only concerned with protecting the novice online gambler. Tsk, tsk, tsk!

[Grand Slam]

Are you a lawyer Paddy?

[Paddy]

Are you a lawyer Paddy?[/b]

Not really, but for better or worse, I know a fair bit more about the law than the average chimpanzee.

[Leary]

It looks like Canada's Conservative government, for whatever reasons, has tired of Emery's "I'm a martyr/I'm the victim" chest-pounding to any media that will listen, and will go along with Emery's plan to become a martyr.

Frankly, the man is an insufferable blow-hard, who never quite got the idea that pot-smokers didn't need a hero, they didn't need someone to fight a fight that never existed, and has only ever used the whole fucking non-issue here in Canada to massage his massive ego. He's a nut-job.

Having said that, he doesn't deserve to serve more than a few months in jail.

I find it very self-serving on Emery's part to keep bleating about how he'll take the rap just to save his co-accused from any jail-time. That's bullshit. In Emery's mind, there's only room for one "hero" in his little movie!

The US has agreed to a plea-bargain of a few months for the other two. An old-time con would call that a sock-change and a cup of coffee! Anyone who wants to fashion themselves as committed to a cause should be able to do a few months in jail while standing on their head!

It's a good thing this goof wasn't asked to appear on the cover of Forbes Mag. as part of a story about illegitimate business. It could have caused the collapse of the entire marijuana biz in North America!

And yes, GS, extradition seems likely. Emery should have known it was time to fold!
[/b]

So Paddy, Brunhuber, Calvin what ever you're calling your self these days.... What's the latest story on this? Are you still representing Marc Emery?

[x riptown]

Similarly with cocaine, we had a show on our version of 60 Minutes up here about why it was that so much effort went into stopping BC Bud going south, while the Yanks didn't seem to bother their arses about coke coming up here. The reason is that when coke comes up here, Canadians leave money in the US economy, and replace the money the Mexicans took out when they smuggled the coke in in the first place. Why would America go to the trouble and expense of stopping what at its core is beneficial to America

[/b]

I live in Vancouver and am familiar with the Marc Emery case and on occasions have hooked up with friends at his restaurant.


Until recently I worked at Riptown. I happened to be reading postings on the forum Discover Vancouver and saw a posting by Bill Roberts that linked over to this site.

Coincidentally one of my responsibilities was helping out with PR and Media inquiries. So I am well aware of Bill Roberts and his brother Paddy Roberts and what they have been doing inside this industry with the media, Canadian Authorities and licensing boards.

When I read the above I was truly amazed to see that Marc Emery is associated with these same guys.

They have a very close relationship with David Baines from the Vancouver Sun. Interesting to note that all the negative press stories on this industry originated from them thru David Baines. Which they then make reference to with other media groups and licensing officials as credible information.

Some call them bodog hater's but what they really are is industry haters. Everyone is affected in some way by what they are working on Sportsbooks, Affiliates, Licensing boards.

They have been working closely with 60 minutes these past few months and as you see from above they have a past relationship with them. If you block out the bodog rants and read between the lines you will get a clearer picture of what they are really doing.


I think these 2 posts are good examples of what I am saying..

http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Vancouve...630#entry331630

"Well, they are some pretty tough boys, the Mohawks. But the Kahnawake Gaming Commission is pure criminal and they are next in the Vancouver Sun investigation, along with a US company named National Fraud Center, which apparently is exactly what its name says it is. The Sun will want to know how somebody like Ayre ever got licensed by the Mohawks, who rely on National Fraud Center to "vet" applicants for a license.

No sign of Calvin around Canada, either. His case is exactly the same as the Marc Emery case, that pot seed seller who has never set foot in the US but is being extradited there anyway. We can be fairlys sure that Cal is somewhere in the pipe for the same thing, with the Canadians happy to take all that penthouse property and farmland as proceeds of crime.

It is a crime in Canada to conspire to violate the laws of another country, even if you never go there. Ultimately that is how Canada will put the elastic band around Cal's brightly colored testicles and suck up to the US. that's the reason Cal never comes home to mammy anymore, that and the fact that some burned investors in Bicer Medical have now got a contract out on him with some very capable people prepared to end it all.


http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Kentucky...ell-t56587.html


....friend of mine advises me that the US and Canadian governments have had a plan in the works for two years now to shut down the servers on the Kahnawake reserve. This plan is expected to accelerate rapidly if and when the current Conservative government gains a majority in the October 14 election.

[Paddy]

I live in Vancouver and am familiar with the Marc Emery case and on occasions have hooked up with friends at his restaurant.


Until recently I worked at Riptown. I happened to be reading postings on the forum Discover Vancouver and saw a posting by Bill Roberts that linked over to this site.

Coincidentally one of my responsibilities was helping out with PR and Media inquiries. So I am well aware of Bill Roberts and his brother Paddy Roberts and what they have been doing inside this industry with the media, Canadian Authorities and licensing boards.

When I read the above I was truly amazed to see that Marc Emery is associated with these same guys.

They have a very close relationship with David Baines from the Vancouver Sun. Interesting to note that all the negative press stories on this industry originated from them thru David Baines. Which they then make reference to with other media groups and licensing officials as credible information.

Some call them bodog hater's but what they really are is industry haters. Everyone is affected in some way by what they are working on Sportsbooks, Affiliates, Licensing boards.

They have been working closely with 60 minutes these past few months and as you see from above they have a past relationship with them. If you block out the bodog rants and read between the lines you will get a clearer picture of what they are really doing.


I think these 2 posts are good examples of what I am saying..

http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Vancouve...630#entry331630

"Well, they are some pretty tough boys, the Mohawks. But the Kahnawake Gaming Commission is pure criminal and they are next in the Vancouver Sun investigation, along with a US company named National Fraud Center, which apparently is exactly what its name says it is. The Sun will want to know how somebody like Ayre ever got licensed by the Mohawks, who rely on National Fraud Center to "vet" applicants for a license.

No sign of Calvin around Canada, either. His case is exactly the same as the Marc Emery case, that pot seed seller who has never set foot in the US but is being extradited there anyway. We can be fairlys sure that Cal is somewhere in the pipe for the same thing, with the Canadians happy to take all that penthouse property and farmland as proceeds of crime.

It is a crime in Canada to conspire to violate the laws of another country, even if you never go there. Ultimately that is how Canada will put the elastic band around Cal's brightly colored testicles and suck up to the US. that's the reason Cal never comes home to mammy anymore, that and the fact that some burned investors in Bicer Medical have now got a contract out on him with some very capable people prepared to end it all.


http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Kentucky...ell-t56587.html


....friend of mine advises me that the US and Canadian governments have had a plan in the works for two years now to shut down the servers on the Kahnawake reserve. This plan is expected to accelerate rapidly if and when the current Conservative government gains a majority in the October 14 election.


[/b]

What's your point, Dickweed?

I'd ask that you privately PM Reagan and provide the following proof:

That you have ever worked in PR for Riptown Media.

That either the Huber or I have ever worked with 60 Minutes or that they would care in the slightest about what either of us had to say.

That either of us are able to control what David Baines investigates and what he has to say about Calvin Ayre.

That anything David Baines said about Calvin Ayre wasn't true and that the posting of that information on these forums was harmful to anyone who reads them.

That it is David Baines, not Calvin Ayre, who is causing the most harm to the online gaming "industry".

Should be simple enough for you, laddie.

If you aren't able to establish all of this and are just talking out of your arse, PM Brunhuber and give him your phone number. I have an associate out on the West Coast there who will give you a call and arrange for a sit down to discuss how you might improve your manners in the future.

We set out to finish Calvin Ayre's involvement in the online gaming industry. He's finished. What are you running your mouth about?

[Paddy]

I live in Vancouver and am familiar with the Marc Emery case and on occasions have hooked up with friends at his restaurant.

When I read the above I was truly amazed to see that Marc Emery is associated with these same guys.[/b]

Truly amazed, eh? Gee, I'm always suspicious of people who are "truly" amazed. Ordinary amazement is never enough for them, is it Mikey Cash?

I do think though that Marc Emery would be "truly" amazed to find out that you are telling OGD readers that you hooked up with friends at his restaurant. He doesn't have one.

Got to run. Ed Bradley's on the line, wants me to approve something on the 60 Minutes story.

You fucking dweeb!

[Red Tide]

I thought Ed Bradley was dead. Maybe that was Mike Wallace. Didn't someone from there kick the bucket recently?

[Brunhuber]

I live in Vancouver and am familiar with the Marc Emery case and on occasions have hooked up with friends at his restaurant.


Until recently I worked at Riptown. I happened to be reading postings on the forum Discover Vancouver and saw a posting by Bill Roberts that linked over to this site.

Coincidentally one of my responsibilities was helping out with PR and Media inquiries. So I am well aware of Bill Roberts and his brother Paddy Roberts and what they have been doing inside this industry with the media, Canadian Authorities and licensing boards.

When I read the above I was truly amazed to see that Marc Emery is associated with these same guys.

They have a very close relationship with David Baines from the Vancouver Sun. Interesting to note that all the negative press stories on this industry originated from them thru David Baines. Which they then make reference to with other media groups and licensing officials as credible information.

Some call them bodog hater's but what they really are is industry haters. Everyone is affected in some way by what they are working on Sportsbooks, Affiliates, Licensing boards.

They have been working closely with 60 minutes these past few months and as you see from above they have a past relationship with them. If you block out the bodog rants and read between the lines you will get a clearer picture of what they are really doing.


I think these 2 posts are good examples of what I am saying..

http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Vancouve...630#entry331630

"Well, they are some pretty tough boys, the Mohawks. But the Kahnawake Gaming Commission is pure criminal and they are next in the Vancouver Sun investigation, along with a US company named National Fraud Center, which apparently is exactly what its name says it is. The Sun will want to know how somebody like Ayre ever got licensed by the Mohawks, who rely on National Fraud Center to "vet" applicants for a license.

No sign of Calvin around Canada, either. His case is exactly the same as the Marc Emery case, that pot seed seller who has never set foot in the US but is being extradited there anyway. We can be fairlys sure that Cal is somewhere in the pipe for the same thing, with the Canadians happy to take all that penthouse property and farmland as proceeds of crime.

It is a crime in Canada to conspire to violate the laws of another country, even if you never go there. Ultimately that is how Canada will put the elastic band around Cal's brightly colored testicles and suck up to the US. that's the reason Cal never comes home to mammy anymore, that and the fact that some burned investors in Bicer Medical have now got a contract out on him with some very capable people prepared to end it all.


http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Kentucky...ell-t56587.html


....friend of mine advises me that the US and Canadian governments have had a plan in the works for two years now to shut down the servers on the Kahnawake reserve. This plan is expected to accelerate rapidly if and when the current Conservative government gains a majority in the October 14 election.
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The "friend of mine" is actually a friend of one of my other brothers, Adrien. He's the Member of Parliment for the Salmon Arm riding. http://colinmayes.ca/

I don't think it will come as a surprise to many here at OGD that I have contacted dozens of media outlets in an ongoing attempt to get the word out on your Uncle Calvin. Hey, it worked! He's finished!

And it's no secret to me that you and whomever else have had the techies at BODOG hack into my computer about two years ago and are privy to each and every e-mail I have ever sent. Kudos to you! You should be proud to be associated with people with so little respect for the privacy of others!

Go ahead and post them! Don't forget the one I wrote to Oprah Winfrey suggesting how she might want to do a story about how the stock fraudster turned "face of online gambling", and his sister used stolen money to perpetrate a truly disgusting case of parental alienation on numerous innocent parties.

I never heard back from Oprah's people, but several journalists in Canada have expressed interest in the story. Of course I only talk to them on the phone now. Kinda like BoDog won't give excuses via the comp, only over the phone.

So go ahead and post what you want, young fella! It's no secret here that I have vowed to see your uncle in prison.

Course he doesn't like that too much. And it all became way to much for him when the Guardian UK printed the story about him trying to get a book-making license in the UK, and I rubbed his nose in it by showing an e-mail I had written to Simon Bower a year before the story came out. Right here on OGD. My beloved OGD!

I guess that's what culminated in the chain of events with Uncle Calvin conspiring with some of the Mohawk Silks sending the goons to my house, and phoning here.

Boy, you must be so proud of Uncle Calvin. Bankrolling BoDog with money he stole from others, letting his ego spiral out of control and telling the Bush gang to go fuck themselves. I can only imagine how drunk he must have been with power.


So drunk that he could tell a mutual acquaintance from Salmon Arm that he'd make sure I'd never see my children , ever, just because he could.


And topping it all off by sending organised crime scum to threaten the life of his nephew and niece's father. Unbelievable! You good with that too, Adrien?

The old poofter has watched too many GodFather movies!

Where is Uncle Cal at now, Adrien? You don't mind if I use your real name, do you. Or do you prefer Gollem? Leary?

Is he still exiled in Antigua? Living with the knowledge that if he ventures out of that shit-hole that he will likely face the same fate as Gary Kaplan?

BTW, Marc Emery is no friend of mine! He reminds me too much of another blowhard I know. A guy with a bloated ego, more money that brains, and thinking he's bigger than Uncle Sam!

And he's going to the joint in the USA as well. Doesn't break my heart. There's no better come-uppance for these sick bastards than spending a little quality time with other sociopaths!

I see from the tone of your post that you are hoping the Mohawks send out the goons again. I hope that doesn't happen. Because another "friend of mine", who's well qualified to give an opinion, advises me I can shoot them dead, if they are "on or near" my property! Send them up to the big tee-pee in the sky! Entirely due to the previous incident!

That's not my preference, but I never was one to be bullied!

I feel sorry for you, Adrien. I really do. Clearly no one ever taught you right from wrong. I never should have talked your mom out of sending you back to your dad.

And stay off the pot! It makes you a dope!

Oh, and the contract out on Uncle Cal has nothing to do with Paddy or I. But you would know that from reading my e-mails. Calvy has lots and lots of enemies, Adrien. Why do you think he needed to be "guarded" down in CR?

He's a thief, he's stolen from many, many people, some of them as un-savory as he, but a lot more dangerous.

Hope he can survive prison in the US. Muuwaaaahahaha!

[x riptown]

How is it you feel entitled to stalk and harass staff members online and thru the office just because they work for bodog. The same goes for forum owners, affiliates and moderators with no regard for their families or businesses. http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Bodog-bounced-check-insid-t48947.html&st=76
But seriously, what a scam! It's an industry beyond compare! And it's morphed into a massive theft, facilitated by the likes of Shrink, and that scumbag Wilheim,and many others, who don't even pretend anymore that it's not grand larceny on a grand scale!

How is it you feel entitled to stalk celebrities fan forums just because they were sponsored in a poker tournament. Posting comments about drug abuse and addiction to cocaine......

How is it you feel entitled to slander artists and attack their careers with comments of being gay, being involved in criminal activities just because they were photo'd at an event for this industry.

How is it that you know about the Vancouver Sun investigation "But the Kahnawake Gaming Commission is pure criminal and they are next in the Vancouver Sun investigation, along with a US company named National Fraud Center, which apparently is exactly what its name says it is. The Sun will want to know how somebody like Ayre ever got licensed by the Mohawks, who rely on National Fraud Center to "vet" applicants for a license." and yet you have no relationship with David Baines?

How is it that you know "got a contract out on him with some very capable people prepared to end it all" yet have nothing to do with it.

How is it that you keep referring to David Baines and 60 minutes episode
http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Hartley-...ish-t55091.html
You want to see misfactual, take a look at the Vancouver Sun article on the issue. As you know Chuck I've been involved in this industry (online) almost since its inception and I'm amazed at the mainline writers who pretend to be so well versed but don't know shit.
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Right, Hartley! Those darn "mainline' writers! They're not even "mainstream"! But I think Baines knows shit when he sees it. That's why he's had a half dozen stories on BoDog.

Say, Hartley, how's your story on the merger of Absolute and UtimateBet coming?

I'm Cereus. Hartley?

What's that? I can't hear you. The silence is deafening!

Hartley must be too busy shining Chuck's shoes.

Oh, well, there's always 60 Minutes.

How is it that you spend countless hours everyday posting negative articles about this industry, Ultimate Bet and Absolute.. and yet have nothing to with this industry
http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Time-tre...bli-t55864.html
That type of loser is the one who has been cheated by software and by collaboration in casino and poker games. I know you can't cheat in sportsbooks, other than having "processor problems". But casino and poker is wide open to rigged software and collaboration. There is absolutely nothing to stop that. Nothing. Absolute and Ultimate aren't even the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Why wouldn't gaming sites do it?

The reason they can do it is that the US fails to accept and regulate online gaming and particularly to have a system of vetting the character of those who gamers must trust in. There is one glaring example of the failure of the system in this regard, but there can be and are countless others. Even good gamblers are their victims.

I've heard people say that sites wouldn't do that because there is too much to lose. Bullshit. They have nothing to lose. What did Absolute and Ultimate lose? Unbelievably, they are still in business for doing something you'd be shot dead for in many places in the poker playing world.
http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Brunhube...Sti-t55565.html
Well, Dm, we did have a fair bit more to do with it than appears on the surface or the forums. But had the Forbes article not appeared, I wouldn't even have known he was alive, being told years before that someone had offed him down south, which was entirely credible at the time. It was Forbes that primarily killed off Bodog, or the international manifestation of his raging personality problems that got him into hot water. We just kept the heat on in the right places, although we're not involved in any law enforcement efforts against him.

Our effort was to make punters and regulatory officials aware of who he was and the danger he posed. We did our best and it wasn't everything that brought him down but it was something and it was significant.

http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Raiders-...b-M-t52878.html

http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Vancouve...Los-t52525.html

In resonse to Mike Cash's earlier comment on a different forum concerning this story, this reporter Baines' voice carries a lot of clout in business and political circles here in Canada!

Course Cash wouldn't know that, since he's not allowed up here!

But he crows about the reporter being a bit salty because he's not part of the Mohawk nation. And Mike crows because he only read the part about "BoDog immunity from prosecution".

How is it you know about the Mohawk nation being knocked down in the not too distant future.Well, news flash, Mike. The Mohawk nation will be knocked down more than a few notches in the not too distant future. And it will be because good, decent people like David Baines rightly take exception to this bogus "soverign nation" bullshit.

And the Toronto Star is saying it. And the Montreal Gazette. And the Hamilton Spectator. Bullshit!


Decent, honest people up here are taking notice, and when I talk about a "new sherrif in town", that would be the Conservative govt. They do what their asked, when asked by the DOJ!


http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Ottawa-r...amp-t51811.html
see Hartley from MW thinks this move would be political suicide for Canada's Conservative govt.

I disagree. I think that one of the reasons that Stephen Harper was elected, albeit to a minority govt., was to bring some semblance of a "one law for all Canadians" to the average Joe and Jolene.

Those who are proud to be Canadian are sick and tired of the numerous special interest groups in Canada that have been kow-towed to by the Liberal govt. of the past.

And don't think for a minute that the US govt. isn't part of this decision!


A disaster? One policeman was killed at Oka. While that is tragic, for the officer, and his family, it's nothing on the scale of things.

We've lost close to one hundred soldiers in Afghanistan, nobody is calling that a "disaster". And most of those boys were from Quebec.

The previous reluctance to assert Canadian law was about votes, and appeasement.

This is going to happen, and you better believe that it is being talked about at the highest levels of the Canadian and American governments.


http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/ChuckMoh...tor-t51391.html



These are the lowest grade cocksuckers you are ever going to run into in the online industry.

I have asked them almost two years ago how it was that Old Pink Ass ever got a license and I'm still waiting for a response.

The biggest pieces of shit in online gaming are licensed at Kahnawake.

http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/RCMP-Com...b-L-t50360.html



guess the Senate has no concerns over the Absolute Poker theft, the licensing of fraud artists, the well-known links

between organised crime and online gambling sites, and on and fucking on..... Not to mention the festering boil that is the

Kahnawake Gaming Commission and their ludicrous claims that they can license these crooks because they "are special".

This seems to me as just one more indicator that global organised crime groups really do have control of Canada.



How is it that you spend countless hours a day surfing forums for information on different people that you have nothing to do with.

http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Kahnawak....html&st=19

Question Organized crime in Costa Rica?
Maybe we can get some feedback from the guys who are living in CR. All this recent scamming has me wondering a bit. Are U.S mob figures behind some of the bookmaking operations located offshore? The way people talk about CR.....they say paradise, then they say wild west. Some of the smarter crime elements must be aware of this also. Plus....funding for operations has to come from somewhere. We know there are decent businessmen running a handful of books. Who runs the dark side of things out there?



Unbelievable story here. Two militant Mohawks, one convicted of conspiracy to smuggle weed into Canada, the other up on two assault charges. They are the driving force behind the Six Nations group which has long-standing ties to Absolute Poker, and they have contracts with the federal government in Canada. To supply computer equipment. It's amazing that these guys have not been shut down.



It looks like our Canadian government cannot cosy up to these guys enough. They've also seen fit to give Joe Norton, the ex-chief who claims to own Absolute Poker, the title of special consultant to the Federal Bridge Corporation Limited. What the fuck could this guy possibly know about bridges?


I see MW has a long story on their front page exclaiming how wonderful it is that the Kahnawake Gaming Commission have cowed the Canadian and Quebec governments into letting them set up shop and become the "licensing arm" of the biggest scam in history, online gambling. A truly disgusting piece, I think, filled with mis-leading info, half-truths, blatant lies, biased opinion, and permeated with an "it's good for me, who gives a fuck if these guys have links to every organised crime group in the world, have politicians in their pockets, and have been labelled a terrorist group due to their thinly veiled threats of violence against law-enforcement personnel"attitude. We're alright, Jack!



Jesus Christ, Bill, that's putting it together big time





The next question in all of this is 'Who is Scott Tom", the same question as in Homedog's thread below.



http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Kiss-Dea...-Po-t49615.html


The guy who will certainly know is Joe Norton. Joe Norton's company is 100% owner of Absolute Poker. As the only shareholder, it appoints the entire board of directors. The board of directors appoint the management. So there is no mystery to them who Scott Tom is.



I think Brunhuber had the best question in response to the question of whether Calvin and other online sites have rigged software.

Who would stop them?

The regulatory system? The same one that has licensed Calvin in the UK, the criminal nation of Kahnawake



Ah yes, licensed by the Kahnawake Gaming Commission. Licensed to steal. The filthy fucking scum.



http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Absolute...ned-t49664.html





http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Antigua-...ing-t48966.html



I live in the major outdoor pot growing area of British Columbia. Over a third of all dollars that pass through the tills of local merchants come from the pot industry and the police here are well aware that any interference in the industry is very unwelcome. This past week, though, we have seen the RCMP helicopter going up and down the main pot growing areas and going directly from one pot plantation to another as if they knew exactly where they are. And they do. Last year, there was a newspaper article in which it was said that previous problems with satellite technology being used to detect pot plantations were resolved and that the RCMP were going to go back to using this new tool. So it appears they have

Elsewhere, news that the US Government has been monitoring posting forums has led to difficulties in sports betting sites being able to accept Moneygram and Western Union deposits leading into the new football season. This deposit option was cancelled by several websites in recent days

http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Kahnawak...g-A-t49569.html

http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/Kiss-Dea...-Po-t49615.html


Kahnawake has a further strike against it. It isn't even a country. It's a bunch of criminal bozos perverting the very legitimate claim of First Nations sovereignty for their own profits and putting out this outrageous pretence of a "regulatory regime" in the Kahnawake gaming commission.
Fuck you, Chuck. I'm going to be contacting the Globe and Mail, MacLean's, CBC, etc., etc. to shine more light on this! This ain't over!

I want to call on Russ Hawkins, John Walker and Ken Weitzner to forgo the stolen money that they have been accepting from this organised crime group, which hides behind a mask of "soverignity", which has murdered their own people, which has lain down with almost every organised crime group on the planet, and which has made online gambling in North America synonomous with white-collar thieving!

http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/UK-thumb...e-A-t51260.html

How is it you know about a police investigation but have nothing to do with it. How is it you harass your own family for information from bodog for the police.
I have a relative working there who is working for the police. Guess who she/he is. Please post this in the lunch room so all staff will have an opportunity to find new employment before they are unceromoniously fired. This is not a joke. The online gambling scam is over. Sincerely, Bill Roberts email to Riptown staff

How is it that you are not an industry hater but have 2000 to 3000 postings just on this site in the past couple of years and all of them are negative on the industry.

How is it that you are contacting the Globe and Mail, MacLean's, CBC, etc but not working with 60 minutes

http://offshoregamblersdigest.com/UK-thumb...e-A-t51260.html
This will have to put pressure on the Canadian govt. to shut down these renegade thugs from the Kahnawake reservation.

Kahnawake has a further strike against it. It isn't even a country. It's a bunch of criminal bozos perverting the very legitimate claim of First Nations sovereignty for their own profits and putting out this outrageous pretence of a "regulatory regime" in the Kahnawake gaming commission.

Fuck you, Chuck. I'm going to be contacting the Globe and Mail, MacLean's, CBC, etc., etc. to shine more light on this! This ain't over!

It all starts with the high security "war room" out on the Kahnawake reserve. Nobody gets in there. Nobody! They can do whatever the hell they please. It's no coincidence that the morally bankrupt, sexually dysfunctional, nearing fifty year old fraudster Ayre has hitched his wagon to the biggest organised crime group in Canada. As my plumber friend Frank would say, "shit always finds it's own level"!

I want to call on Russ Hawkins, John Walker and Ken Weitzner to forgo the stolen money that they have been accepting from this organised crime group, which hides behind a mask of "soverignity", which has murdered their own people, which has lain down with almost every organised crime group on the planet, and which has made online gambling in North America synonomous with white-collar thieving!

Come on, Russie! You've bragged about how you don't need the money from MW. You know what's going on out there on the res. Do you care about your country? Or do you care about how many "rubs and tugs" the Silks can pay you off with?

Take a stand, Russ! Have Jay, or Hartley, or hell, write it yourself, but somebody has to say it! Kahnawake is a den of fucking thieves that is making a mockery of online gambling, of the whole native soverignity issue; that there's a very good reason their "licensee's" are not allowed to advertise in the UK.

You should be offended that this Chuck prick, some fucking nobody who's gotten fat off of stolen money, has the fucking audacity to take offence to your comment under the KGC thread on your site.

the "business community that has developed in Kahnawake". Let's see now, Alwyn, would that be the cigarette smuggling community, the gun smuggling community, or the dope smuggling community? Or the completely deranged community that wakes up every morning thinking they are a seperate nation above the laws of Canada?

Which community would that be?

http://www.coldeye.org/blog/index.php?itemid=40

One would have thought that with the name Kahnawake already so heavily associated with organized crime, the Gaming Commission would have wanted the world to know that it is an oasis of honesty and probity in the midst of all that. But we will wait and see, maybe they only come into the office on Fridays.

How is it you happen to say you are an accountant "I don't start businesses. I'm an accountant and I sort out business frauds for victims and try and get their money back for them. Not fraud on your scale, but at the end of the day, it's all fraud, just different numbers. "



As I was saying I worked in media and PR and I know these guys well. No I'm not related to Calvin. I no longer work at Riptown and I am no longer involved in this industry.

[Brunhuber]

Thanks for the rehash! I stand by everything I have said!

But why lie?

"As I was saying I worked in media and PR and I know these guys well. No I'm not related to Calvin. I no longer work at Riptown and I am no longer involved in this industry."

If you're not related and don't work in the industry, what do you care. And you have the audacity to admit you worked for Calvin in public relations?

You really should be ashamed! Any comments on his million dollar swindle which he used to launch BoDog?

I have things to do right now, so I'll leave you with this pic here. Which as they say in public realations, "a picture speaks a thousand words".

Cal is pictured here in a pool of his own sleaze! Maybe you are the idiot who lined up the story for him!

Take some responsibility! [attachment=480557:Calvin_A...eandMail.jpg]

What kind of gomers would think they could make a career out of being a PR person for someone like Calvin? If you worked for him in this capacity, then maybe you are little Fawn Labrie, pictured here.

[attachment=480558:BLRDOBCA...CAJZ8Z0B.jpg]

You know who Paddy and I are, but the pleasure is not mutual.

Identify yourself, or forever hold your piece.

I keep hearing rumours that Cal suffered a massive heart attack, from stress. Is this true?

Ooops, sorry, I forgot. You don't work for him any more. And you're not related!

[AK]

This is terrible, no father should be away from his kids unless there a harm to them.

AK

[Calvin]

This fuckin' Brunhuber!

We knew he controlled the Canadian parliament, the US Senate, the FBI and David Baines. But I'll bet you he's behind this patent troll Scott Lewis too.

I call on all my past public relations people to join X RipTown in attempting to incite hatred against these guys. Maybe we can get the Mohawks stirred up! They know where these guys live, because I told them.

Me, I'm safe here in Antigua, as long as I never leave.

But it seems very small lately!


Today, 07:31 AM
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Bodog Loses Federal Appeal
13-10-08

In America, Bodog Entertainment Group has lost its appeal against a District Court of Nevada ruling and is now looking at paying fines in excess of $50 million to 1st Technology LLC.

1st Technology brought the initial patent infringement case in Nevada in June of last year but Bodog failed to appear in court, which resulted in a default judgement of $46,597,849 along with the confiscation of Bodog’s domain names including Bodog.com and Bodog.net. This saw the Antigua-based online gambling provider rebrand as BodogLife.com and launch an appeal against the monetary judgement.

However, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, DC, has now affirmed the lower court's ruling and Bodog’s bill stands at over $50 million with interest.

'We cannot be more pleased,” said Scott Lewis, Chief Executive Officer for 1st Technology.

“Bodog has consistently tried to circumvent the United States justice system and disregarded the legitimacy of our claims against it. We now have the certainty we need to accelerate our seizure of any and all global assets to satisfy the judgment and bring fairness and respect back to Bodog's commercial dealings.

“I am also pleased that those companies operating in the US or serving US customers via the Internet are not above the law.'

Chicago-based law firm Flachsbart and Greenspoon handled the appeal for 1st Technology , which was listed under the number 2008-1132 and involved Bodog’s distribution of software used for online gaming.

'We are extremely gratified for our client that the Court of Appeals saw the merits exactly the way we did,' said Robert Greenspoon.

iGamingBusiness.com > Bodog Loses Federal Appeal
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[Brunhuber]

Here's a slightly different take on RipTown from another ex-employee.

Some people who worked there around that time swear that this was the time-frame for Calvin handing over control of BoDog rather than go bankrupt. Financially speaking, not morally! That came a decade earlier!
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Calvin Ayre http://www.utilitygrade.net/article/calvin-ayre

That name came as a blast from the past. I sat bolt upright (well, I arced one of my eyebrows) when I heard Peter Mansbridge say his name. If you don’t know him, read this.

I saw him on CBC news last night. The US wants his ass these days. I got my break into web design from one of the various incarnations of his company. He’d come through with angry looking russians and their muscle. There was usually beer in the fridge on Fridays (and shooters brought around by him). Looks like Calvin still likes the parties from what I saw of the shots of him in his Costa Rican mansion with bikini clad babes and bubbly.

The bodog.com (one of the biggest online gambling sites) name came in just as I was losing my job and the bubble was sagging. Then came my first (and only) time riding the EI train.

That’s right. We all have a stain somewhere. I made internet gambling sites:[attachment=480563:11.jpg]
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Let's see what X Riptown has to say about this! Maybe he/she won't say anything!

X RipTown. You have the floor. Did Calvin sell his soul at this point? Or not? Please strive for truthfulness!

Because this is, after all, OGD!

[Brunhuber]

From Gambling IQ.

10-18-2008, 09:14 PM #72
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Hilarious From Gambling 911 last month.

Ha ha. Obviously a Bodog employee or "die hard". Let's see how viable your claims are in a year when Bodog is unable to pay anybody anymore. Why did Calvin sell? Why have payouts been super slow? Why are they firing employees? Why has every sportsbook watchdog downgraded them? Why do other sportsbooks enjoy success while they are suffering? answers: calvin knows to get out when the timing is right. The company is reverting back to a shell of it's once self. Ego and directly challenging the bigger ego of US law mixed with a myriad of tremendously bad decisons has resulted in failure. You said: "They are shedding all their NON GAMING BUSINESS which are NOT making them money. It is doubtful they were ever really suppose to be profit generators, instead they were created to fuel the company's bread and butter product, THEIR GAMING CHANNEL." I say" If it's not about making money, then why do it?" Look dude, give up on Bodog. They have awakened a sleeping giant. Not familiar to you. Google "US entering WWII". Good luck, check out Bookmaker if you need a book that knows how to operate.
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As a result of a post at OGD last week, under the Prince Of Pot thread, I was contacted by a recently laid-off RipTown [BoDog] employee who took offence to a post from someone calling him/herself "X RipTown.

This person advised me that the most important info to take from all of G911's stories on Calvin/BoDog are as follows:

1] Calvin still calls all of the shots.

2]BoDog lost all of it's cash reserves with the seizure of the 24 mil last Feb.

3]Calvin knows fully well that there are no payment processors who will touch BoDog with a ten foot pole. And further that he knew this well over a year ago, which caused him to set up shell companies, within the USA, with himself as CEO.

4]Calvin has no qualms whatsoever about shutting down BoDog with no notice to anyone and using all monies on deposit to finance a new venture.

SEC Info - Cyberoad Com Corp - SB-2/A - On 7/19/00 - EX-10.52

5]Calvin has recently used an old shell company, El Moro Finance, to buy up Ascot Sports, which he intends to operate under, this time anonyomously.
This tidbit of info was on G911 two months ago, but only your faithful servant 'Brun picked up on it.

Ascot Sports to Withdraw From Online Gaming Business

6]Calvin intends to let the new "licensee" of BoDog, Alwyn Morris, the ex-Olympian Mohawk, take the heat for the missing money.

This is the straight goods on what Ol' Cal has planned, and I think it's only fitting that it should be posted here at Gambling IQ. Again, kudos to the boys here for coming out with this thread!

I could have given links to all the above, but for those who want to know, it's all at G 911. Mark my words!

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