PartyGaming Sues Former Owner of Empire Online

Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) –
Livermore “failed to deliver a certain amount of income under an acquisition made three years ago,” John Shepherd, a PartyGaming spokesman, said in a telephone interview. The suit was filed in London Dec. 23, according to court records.
Livermore used to operate as the online gaming company Empire Online until Gibraltar-based PartyGaming bought its gambling business in 2006 for $38 million. It changed its name and became an investment business following the acquisition.
Shepherd said the value of the claim is “six figures.” He declined to give more details.
Livermore is run by Chief Executive Officer Noam Lanir, who also founded Empire Online. Fran Read, the company’s spokeswoman, declined to comment.
PartyGaming is in talks with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve allegations over the company’s past activities in that country, where offshore Web gaming is illegal. The company’s founder, Anurag Dikshit, pleaded guilty in the U.S. to illegal Internet gambling and agreed to forfeit $300 million on Dec. 16.
At the time, the company said it was in talks with the Justice Department on a settlement, adding that any payment it makes would likely be “significantly below” the amount paid by Dikshit. The U.S. banned offshore Internet gaming in 2006.
Will the U.S. Recession Affect Online Casinos in 2009?
With all the latest gloom and doom spreading around it’s hard to imagine that 2009 will get any better. The brick and mortar Las Vegas casinos are already reporting a major slowdown in profits. People are losing their jobs and homes at alarming rates. But what about the online casinos? How are they going to do in the year 2009?
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If Las Vegas is reporting record losses its not hard to understand why. People can’t afford to go out anymore. Especially if it means buying an airplane ticket and hotel costs. So I’m predicting that people that usually play at the brick and mortar casino will opt out for a lottery ticket, a glass of wine and an hour or so at their favorite online casino.
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This just in from Casinomeister:
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This just in from Casinomeister:
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Norway Bans Online Gambling
The European Union in Brussels this week strongly condemned Norway’s decision to make online gambling illegal in that Scandinavian nation.
The Norwegian parliament last week passed a proposal to ban financial transactions between Norweigan residents and online poker and Internet gambling sites, just as the US had done in October 2006. And like in the United States, Norway’s Financial Services Association and its banking sector insists they are ill equipped to monitor such transactions.
Justification for the ban has been to protect Norwegian problem gamblers. But the gaming industry as well as the European Commission (EC) in Brussels strongly suspect that Norway instead is protecting their state gambling monopoly, Norske Tipping.
In the past, the EU has taken a tough stance against Norway’s attempts to prohibit online gambling.
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Grand Prive Casinos BLACKLISTED!
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Well now it turns out that Grand Prive is closing their doors and leaving affiliates in the cold without their lifetime earnings being honored. And to add insult to injury all the Grand Prive casinos are keeping their doors open. So what they are doing is getting rid of all their loyal affiliates and moving shop over to Villa Fortuna. We are exposing this for what it is… flat out thievery.
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Avoid PlumGaming.com
This just in from Casinomeister:
- players attempting to take their issues to CS are ignored _until_ a PAB is filed at which point many of these are immediately resolved, as if there had been no real problem in the first place. If so, why ignore the player’s attempts to settle them?
- they claim to be “investigating” but results are never announced and in the end it all seems to have been a stalling tactic.
- they promise to pay by such-and-such a date but often, not always, those dates come and go and nothing has happened.
- lately our attempts to discuss issues with them are being ignored, or severely delayed, too. It does appear as if this situation is deteriorating.
- overall things seem to be getting worse not better at Plum Gaming regarding the outstanding player issues.
For all these reasons:
Warning: Plum Gaming is ignoring player complaints, stalling payments, claiming “investigations” and the like with no accountability or follow-up. Issues seem to languish without progress until they are pushed to do something, which they sometimes respond to and often ignore. Players should avoid Plum Gaming until they’ve demonstrated that these problems are behind them.




