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7221  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Leroy Fodor has gone Full-Delusional; StakeMiners is 100% confirmed insolvent! on: February 16, 2016, 03:16:12 AM
I was curious enough to invest some play coins last year and after complaining i got it out end of January. Tx or it didnt happen, of course  Wink

Please DONT Interpret this as endorsement or anything like that.

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Your withdraw has been processed and the details are as follows:

Invested Amount       0.31900414 BTC
2% withdraw fee       0.00638008 BTC
-------------------------------------
Total Withdraw        0.31262406 BTC

Payment was sent:
Withdrawal Address: 1PboFDkBsW2i968UnehWwcSrM9Djq5LcLB

https://blockchain.info/tx/d8c27b64a12f333131a3ff412d6e5e3e446952f16073c9a689d3a02dfc86dd58

Initial Invested  0.20000000 BTC
Total Reinvested  0.11900414 BTC

Total Withdrawn   0.31262406 BTC
Total Payments    0.00133458 BTC


Your Profit on this investment

0.11395864 BTC (56.90%)

Thank you for using StakeMiners.com.

--
Leroy Fodor (cyberpinoy)
StakeMiners.com
CEO

Don't mean to pry, but does that mean you invested .2 btc and somehow were able to withdraw .31 total, even though the value of the portfolio dropped greatly over the course of investment?

The fireworks are going to be great when he runs out of money.
I really dont want to get sucked into this thread as supporter of a fscking scam, but since you asked me directly...
Somewhat, at least. I sent SM 0.2, set the returns to auto invest the benefits and got 0.31 back.

Glad you got out before they actually run out of money.

Can't believe he has gotten around to admitting how short he is of money and is still paying out incorrectly.

If any other people invested are reading this, get out NOW. The last one out will be left with nothing, he changed how much he is claiming to have because he thought it would make "trolls" stop, but he's still paying out as if he is running a profitable enterprise.

The .2 you gave him can't be worth .31 when he paid you, yet he gave it to you anyway. He apparently won't realize that he has no money until he actually has to pay it all out.

Watch: How 2 street kids became math wizards

Here's one of the comments:

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artsynova      1 month ago

Has any big company already noticed this kids and helped them... or you just have them become "YouTube Stars" ... they will just waste their talent like this.

Question: Ponzi company took in X bitcoins but ONLY has X - Y bitcoins on account. Status?


<in unison> "Insolvent!"

Katrina Fodor's 3-year-old MENSA son even knows the answer, but won't tell Daddy-O, Leroy Fodor, because he's not his real daddy.
7222  Economy / Services / Re: Looking for Namecheap promo codes to register domains. on: February 16, 2016, 03:02:57 AM

Sure have seen and considered, but opted to pass along any rewards if to be had to fellow crypto-coiners. Thanks for the feedback nonetheless.
7223  Economy / Services / Looking for Namecheap promo codes to register domains. on: February 16, 2016, 01:58:49 AM
Please supply me codes worth 10% or more off the purchase of domains. I'm not planning on using any other Namecheap services, albeit that's not written in stone.

I'll be registering 20-30 (perhaps a few more) over time (this year within months).

I assume you'll benefit if the promo code provided is treated as a paid referral whereupon you'll benefit monetarily wise.

I'll use one code per user account (even if same person, so no prob there) in the order that the codes are submitted. If for some reason a code doesn't work, I'll reply about such, jumping to the next code submitted in line, giving you an opportunity to resubmit a new working code that I will use for the very next domain purchase, in essence not losing your queue position. I'll even take the time to PM you to report an issue.

To be fair and deter gaming of the system, user accounts MUST be older than one calendar month of age (to the second) of the timestamp of this OP of this thread.

Please accept this small gesture as a way to spread the [what's another word for love?]. As an added benefit, others may use the codes submitted in this thread.

Thank you.
7224  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: CRYPTSY stopping withdraw locking accounts without notifying users! Class Action on: February 15, 2016, 10:46:32 PM
Roll Eyes
I'll be a son of a bitch! Horus moved down to Mexico to preform in his new gig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9xq-TVyHI

oh thanx a lot gleb. yu just made me waste 10 minutes of my life watching frikkin ridiculous dog dancin vids  Roll Eyes

Wait, Horus uploaded more videos of him dancing in a tutu with a Mexican?
7225  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: CRYPTSY stopping withdraw locking accounts without notifying users! Class Action on: February 15, 2016, 09:38:03 PM
has anyone in U.S ctually reported vern to fbi or po-lice ?

Quite a few people, myself included, have filled out reports with agencies like IRS, FinCen, SEC, FBI, etc. And these agencies are well aware of Cryptsy's activities including their involvement with XPY, as the Garzas are currently under SEC indictment. It's not a lack of awareness... government stuff like this just doesn't happen that fast.

Don't forget, John MacPherson aka Horus probably no longer has "Brothers" since his Freemason lodge has been notified about this lyin', thievin' ways.
7226  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: martin Shkreli loses 37,000 bitcoins (10 transactions = $15 million) yesterday. on: February 15, 2016, 09:28:02 PM
top acting.. pretends to be pennyless so if convicted the fine will be smaller..

pharma dog loses millions in BTC same day Scalia "dies".  Coincidence?  I think not.  

Remember, it's an election year, and a halving year.

Trust no one, not even Justus Ranvier and his elite dog.





Meet Oshi. Oshi even does tricks. Watch this! Sit, Oshi. Good boy! Now, Oshi, put the car in gear and drive to The Elite Canine Conference - TECC 2016.

Bonus points awarded to the first person shopping Oshi onto the name tag.
7227  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Leroy Fodor has gone Full-Delusional; StakeMiners is 100% confirmed insolvent! on: February 15, 2016, 09:18:59 PM
I'm not even trying to make sense of cyberpinoy's excuses anymore. He's been warned multiple times that the hyperinflationary coins in his "portfolio" can't sustain their value. Nothing to do with Bitcoin or with Cryptsy, but rather cyberpinoy's incompetence, greed, stubbornness, and I wouldn't rule out malice just yet.

You may no longer desire to make sense of Leroy Fodor's excuses, but his MENSA 3-year-old son is currently penning a while paper detailing StakeMiners Ponzi ways between Google-fuuing his crack whore sister's whereabouts. HAHAHA
7228  Other / Off-topic / Re: How to make money online with your version? on: February 15, 2016, 06:33:05 PM
I do not know any other way other than faucets.

Garnering from faucets?
Or building faucet sites?
Or teaching others how to build faucet sites?
7229  Other / Off-topic / Re: Scalia still dead on: February 15, 2016, 06:30:34 PM
There is no proof that Obama did not have Scalia killed.



Is there or is there not proof that there is no proof that Obama did not have Scalia killed?
7230  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Leroy Fodor has gone Full-Delusional; StakeMiners is 100% confirmed insolvent! on: February 15, 2016, 06:22:13 PM
https://www.facebook.com/StakeMinerscom-1627849564105692/

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Stakeminers - This Week - 15 February 2016
>The Future of PoS Mining<
Visit us on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/StakeMinerscom-1627849564105692/
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Welcome to our 11th month in business.
- Minimum deposit is 0.05 BTC.
- Invested BTC 124 / Current Value 30 BTC = down .04% from
January due to fall in value of several altcoins last week.
- Earnings remain steady at 0.51% for the past 3 weeks.
Withdrawals - The principal payout cap is 0.35 BTC per week. There is no change in the number of principal withrdrawal requests.
Earnings - The biggest issue is the loss of trading volume by traders on the markets. They remain on the sidelines and until they return altcoin prices will remain weak.
Stakeminers did not expect that rapid devaluation of the past 6 months when many altcoins fell 50% or more at the same time. Many crypto businesses, StakeMiners included, used the volumes on cryptsy when structuring their business model because Cryptsy was the largest altcoin exchange. The Stakeminers system did not anticipate the hit to altcon prices when they folded.
When Stakeminers was created history charts for each altcoins were compared and checked against historical price charts and no such price declines had happened, not even during bitcon bubbles.

During bitcon bubbles some altcoins dropped in price of between 5% and 40%. The system was designed to handle devaluation in a group of altcoins from 12% to 20% and earnings would remain stable. For earnings to remain stable the system needs to stake more value in coins than you are losing in trade value. With an across the board 50% decline in altcoin prices this was not possible and therefore earnings fell.
Altcoin Review - Stakeminers completed it's altcoins review and has liquidated its holdings in Paycon and Tekcoin. The developers are no longer active with price and market activity reflecting the loss of support. We are actively reviewing other altcoins to add to the stake pool and our contingency fund.
That's it for this week.
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Stakeminers.com is a crypto-currency altcoin Proof of Stake (POS) company with current holdings in 10 altcoins. We provide our clients with a variable rate of return generated from our stake pool earnings. Please see our website Stakeminers.com or email us at: info (at) stakeminers.com for more information.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=989670

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We do not have 1 way you can earn higher profits, we don't have 2 ways, we have many ways your investment is backed up, and is able to bring you in higher profits without the need to reinvest.

7231  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: CRYPTSY stopping withdraw locking accounts without notifying users! Class Action on: February 15, 2016, 07:11:24 AM
http://blog.cryptsy.com/

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Some may ask why we didn’t report this to the authorities when this occurred, and the answer is that we just didn’t know what happened, didn’t want to cause panic, and were unsure who exactly we should be contacting.   At one time we had a open communication with Secret Service Agent Shaun Bridges on an unrelated matter, but I think we all know what happened with him – so he was no longer somebody we could report this to.    Recently I attempted to contact the Miami FBI office to report this, but they instead directed me to report it on the I3C website.  I’ve not heard anything from them.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/great-moments-in-shaun-bridges-a-corrupt-silk-road-investigator

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One example she gave was a suspicious text conversation between Bridges and an unnamed IRS agent—who was not charged in this case—in which the two talked about how much money they were making on the market (presumably, the digital currency market) even as Bridges boasted about guarding Mrs. Obama at that very moment.
7232  Other / Off-topic / Re: How would you react if you just woke up from a coma? on: February 15, 2016, 06:38:49 AM
Some guys may just can't wait to get their next drink after coming out of a coma for ten years due to a DUI accident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfvPPPc_UTs
7233  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Leroy Fodor has gone Full-Delusional; StakeMiners is 100% confirmed insolvent! on: February 15, 2016, 06:20:51 AM
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1736131453277502&id=1627849564105692

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Stakeminers - 14 February 2016

Payouts for Monday, February 15 (Philippines time) are completed and the website has been updated.

That's two weeks in a row that Leroy Fodor has posted less than a dozen words on StakeMiners Ponzi Facebook page. Notice that he's given up on trying to figure out how to convert GMT to Philippines time after doing it wrong for months in spite of others informing, and trying to help him with the simple clock math. HAHAHA I'd say that if Leroy's MENSA 3-year-old son wasn't so busy on his Nobel Prize speech between tracking his crack whore sister via Google-fu, he would help out his Daddy-O in that regard between Leroy's gaming sessions with Terrik and emailing Lorie Ann Nettles' lawyer with vital information to crack the Cryptsy event. HAHAHA
7234  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Daniel S. Friedberg shady lawyer hired to spread FUD on: February 15, 2016, 06:09:05 AM
The Bitcoin Opportunity Panel - How to Profit in an Uncertain Market - Bitcoin 2013 Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-lIBRir1F8

Check out the panel:

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Published on Jun 14, 2013
Moderator: Dan Friedberg and panelists Micky Malka, Patrick Murck, Stuart Hoegner, Arlene Chan discuss the Bitcoin opportunity at the Bitcoin 2013 Conference, May 19, 2013, San Jose, CA, hosted by the Bitcoin Foundation. For more information or to join or donate, please visit https://bitcoinfoundation.org.

We already know Dan Friedberg and Stuart Hoegner's history, but how about Arlene Chan?

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arlene-chan-1638743

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Audit Senior Manager
Moss Adams LLP
March 2009 – Present (7 years)

Senior Manager, Audit
Ernst & Young LLP
October 1994 – December 2008 (14 years 3 months)

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/stuart-hoegner-bb67695

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Deputy GC, Director of Compliance
Excapsa
January 2006 – December 2006 (1 year)

Manager, M&A Tax Services
Ernst & Young
September 1998 – December 2005 (7 years 4 months)

What are the odds?
7235  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Daniel S. Friedberg shady lawyer hired to spread FUD on: February 15, 2016, 04:50:43 AM
BINGO! <Albeit Leroy Fodor's 3-year-old son probably already beat me to the punch with his Google-fu prowess between tracking his crack whore sister. HAHAHA>

http://www.cardplayer.com/cptv/channels/14-under-the-gun/poker-videos/4387-under-the-gun-poker-legal-update-with-stuart-hoegner

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Under The Gun -- Poker Legal Update With Stuart Hoegner

Oct 04, 2010

Jon Freidberg hosts another episode of Under The Gun, brought to you by UB.com. In this show Jon speaks in depth with poker legal expert Stuart Hoegner, who is somewhat of a twitter celebrity based on his frequent info on the legal aspects of the poker industry. They discuss Barney Frank’s bill, HR 2267, the possibility of regulating online poker and other pressing poker legal issues.
7236  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Daniel S. Friedberg shady lawyer hired to spread FUD on: February 15, 2016, 04:26:03 AM
So... I guess the only question left is: Who could possibly be motivated to employ these jokers to spread such FUD, and why?

I caution anyone against holding their breath while waiting for an answer.

I take a stab at the question: To manipulate the market to better their positions at the expense of those on the thinning-of-pockets end.

http://www.riddellwilliams.com/about/our-history

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Business continued to prosper, so in 1959 the firm located to the top floor of the 1411 Fourth Avenue Building, and the firm name became Riddell, Williams, Voorhees, Ivie & Bullitt.
7237  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: CRYPTSY stopping withdraw locking accounts without notifying users! Class Action on: February 15, 2016, 04:22:14 AM
I'll be a son of a bitch! Horus moved down to Mexico to preform in his new gig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc9xq-TVyHI
7238  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Daniel S. Friedberg shady lawyer hired to spread FUD on: February 15, 2016, 04:02:23 AM


http://www.thelawofbitcoin.com/



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THE LAW OF BITCOIN is the response to the great interest
and need for a text focused on the law of cryptocurrencies,
especially bitcoin. This book is the first of its kind delving
into cryptocurrency law in four jurisdictions: Canada,
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Written by knowledge leaders in the legal cryptocurrency
space, THE LAW OF BITCOIN addresses such topics
as the intersection of cryptocurrencies and criminal law,
taxation, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist
financing regulations, securities law, consumer protection,
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THE LAW OF BITCOIN will be a leading resource and go to
text both for those wishing to understand the basics of how
the law affects cryptocurrency and for those in the legal
community searching for sophisticated answers to more
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http://www.thelawofbitcoin.com/contributors-bios/

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Ryan Straus

Ryan is an attorney and co-chair of the Payments Practice Group at Riddell Williams in Seattle. He has a background
in both technology and financial services. Ryan has extensive experience in payments matters, including electronic
payments, mobile payments, prepaid cards, alternative currencies, and federal and state licensing. Ryan is counsel for
industry leaders in banking, payment processing and cryptocurrency sectors. Ryan is also a member of the
Corporate Finance and Securities Practice Group.
Website: http://riddellwilliams.com/profile/attorney/ryan-j-straus-principal-        Twitter: @epaymentslawyer
7239  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Daniel S. Friedberg shady lawyer hired to spread FUD on: February 15, 2016, 03:52:01 AM
http://www.idcreativegroup.com/images/dealmein.pdf

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The “advisers,” Elliott Wolf of Peanut Butter Publishing, and Dan Friedberg and Ryan Straus of Crest Law Group, have all been remarkably useful, positive and always forward thinking.

http://lanyrd.com/2013/btcfoundation/

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9:00am Panel: the Bitcoin Opportunity - How to Profit in an Uncertain Market presented by Lawrence Lenihan, Arlene Chan, Stuart Hoegner, Patrick Murck and Dan Friedberg
7240  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Daniel S. Friedberg shady lawyer hired to spread FUD on: February 15, 2016, 03:31:00 AM
Bitcoin 2013: The Future of Payments
May 17-19, 2013 - San Jose, CA: http://www.bitcoin2013.com/bitcoin-2013-panelists.html

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Stu Hoegner is an international gaming and tax attorney and accountant based in Toronto. He graduated from the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto and is called to practice in Ontario and Nevada. He advises clients on games of skill and chance, contests, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property, and corporate and tax matters. His clientele includes Internet gaming operators and sportsbooks, professional poker players, international land-based casino owners, equipment manufacturers, marketing and advertising companies, poker professionals, pharmaceutical businesses, and social media entrepreneurs. Stu writes a regular blog linked to gamingcounsel.co.

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Ryan Straus is the founder of the Payments Team at Graham & Dunn PC.  As an attorney with a background in both technology and financial services, Ryan assists clients with payment matters, including electronic payments, mobile payments, prepaid cards, alternative currencies, and federal/state licensing. Ryan’s financial services practice focuses on compliance, corporate governance, and regulatory matters.

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Dan Friedberg is a financial services and corporate attorney that specializes in emerging markets, including Bitcoin. Dan works for an established law firm that has represented financial services companies for over 100 years. Dan and his firm are experienced in regulatory compliance, including money transmitter licenses. Dan also assists companies with financings and public listings, including international stock listings. Dan received his MBA and his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Wisconsin, and received highest honors in political economy at Williams College.

All three were well-versed enough in Bitcoin to speak at the SJ conference. Note that Stu opted not to go by Stuart Hoegner, and Dan Friedberg opted to not mention what firm he represented.

http://haleyspokerblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/just-conjecturin-volume-44-dirty-birds.html

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monday, june 18, 2012

Just Conjecturin', Volume 44: The Dirty Birds

"You seem to be in some distress," said the kindly judge to the witness. "Is anything the matter?"
"Well, your Honor," said the witness, "I swore to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but every time I try, some lawyer objects." -- classic lawyer joke

I love me some lawyer jokes, as do most sane people, even as I know that most funny jokes have roots in reality. This time out the topic is lawyers, and the only way to deal with such a stinky topic is to tackle it head on.

If you wondered if there'll be lawyerly tales in the upcoming book, the answer is yes, but in some ways the shocking part is not that there are lawyers involved in the UltimateBet and Absolute Poker cheating tales, but rather, how many. Several ongoing storylines connected to these matters circle back toward perhaps the most famous of all gaming lawyers, Montreal-based Morden "Cookie" Lazarus, of the firm Lazarus Charbonneau, and Cookie's fingerprints spread from these sites' earliest days all the way into the the Norwegian tax matter that we touched on last time out. It's safe -- even "legally safe", har har -- to say that Cookie is one of the secret legal puppetmasters of the online gaming world.

And yet this isn't about Cookie... yet. This time out it's more a matter of introducing some new legal players into the growing roll of folks affiliated with Excapsa or UB. They've all been familiar to me for some time, and all seem to have things to answer for.

There have been plenty of lawyers affiliated with the UB operations, some as staff counsel, and others as consultants. Boil it down and leave out some of the high-priced freelancers for the moment, and the real Excapsa lawyers of interest number just three.

First, there's Sanford "Sandy" Millar, a California-based attorney who served as Excapsa's day-to-day tax and payroll attorney, knowingly doing all this for a US company (that being Excapsa) that was clearly violating US gaming laws as it operated out of Portland, via a pretense of a sham Toronto office that was little more than a secretary and a dropbox. Millar was there virtually from the start, and was a significant Excapsa shareholder.

Second, there's Stuart Hoegner, a hired gun who arrived on the Excapsa scene around the start of 2006 to assist in the company's London Stock Exchange IPO, and to help with possible sales of the company that were also being discussed. Except the UIGEA was thrown into the mix late in 2006, and it was Hoegner who played a key role in designing the complex shell sale to Absolute Poker that involved bringing former Kahnawake Grand Chief Joseph Norton on as a nominal frontman. Hoegner remains on legal distribution lists on Excapsa matters to this day, despite his relatively late arrival on the Excapsa scene.

Hoegner pops up on Twitter often under his @GamingCounsel tag, and I get an exceptional kick out of him trying to redefine himself as a legal media expert while avoiding utterly all discussions of Excapsa, in light of his previous role. It's fun antagonizing the guy on Twitter, knowing that the things I allude to are true and supported by documentation and that he could never withstand a discovery process if he was to get serious about suing me.

In leaving Stuey (for the moment), it's worth noting a recent paper he delivered at a Las Vegas gaming conference that examined several prominent online poker networks' relative legal protections, strengths and weaknesses as pertained to various jurisdictions, including the US. To which I say, "Of course he's the expert -- he just spent the better part of a decade learning exactly which fine lines to dance and which grey areas to skirt!" You can visit Stuey at the website for his "boutique" law practice here.

But even Hoegner pales to one Daniel S. Friedberg, one of the true secret bad people behind the Excapsa facade. Friedberg was there from the very start, and his role in online poker matters follows a strange route indeed. Friedberg graduated along with Phil Hellmuth from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, and seems to have served as Phil Hellmuth's personal attorney -- kind of an agent for Phil's interests, back when UB was born. Friedberg soon became Excapsa's general counsel, with all that involved, even relocating at one point to Toronto to help put a little real meat behind that otherwise-sham office.

Friedberg, though, is a Wisconsin/Seattle person, and these days he keeps about as low a profile as one could possibly imagine for a corporate attorney. No public Twitter or Facebook feeds for an attorney or his practice... really?

Friedberg can be found, however, at a small Seattle legal firm, Crest Law Group. Here's his corporate page, and what's so damned odd about is that all the personal highlights just stop in 2006. The final highlight, listed first on his official bio, is this:

• Corporate counsel for $100 million IPO on the London Stock Exchange AIM (2006)

That's a reference to Excapsa's failed London Stock Exchange IPO, and after that, Friedberg's history -- or so he'd like the world to believe -- just goes dark.

And now, just a bit more of the story....

It appears that Friedberg joining Excapsa at its inception was part of the complex package that also ensconced Hellmuth as the site's frontman, and for the first part of the '00s, UB's corporate history is pretty well known. Friedberg did quite well for himself, garnering several million shares of Excapsa stock in addition to his pay, with said shares distributed across several different ownership entities.

Then the UIGEA happened, the IPO collapsed, and the hasty "sale" to Absolute Poker was arranged, with terms of sale very unfavorable to Excapsa's rank-and-file shareholders. Amid all this, Friedberg switched sides, going to work for Absolute Poker and becoming Scott Tom's attorney as well. You read it right: Friedberg kept himself tied to the money stream, wherever it went, and the Excapsa shareholders whose rights he was suppose to protect were instead just a disposable commodity. The general shareholders screamed about the blatant conflict of interest, but to no avail. A few of the key UB insiders remained tied to Cereus, either through software deals or the endorser packages offered to UB site pros Hellmuth and Annie Duke. But the proletariat shareholders were given a highly dubious promissory note, and pretty much dumped by the attorney who was supposed to be protecting them.

Even for an attorney, that's disgusting behavior.

Having already jumped ship, it's no surprise Friedberg's bad behavior continued on the AP side, when the rank-and-file shareholders at Madeira Fjord were later jettisoned in a similar manner. There's even a tale that circulates among AP ranks of Friedberg unilaterally withdrawing a stock option previously promised to AP spokesman Mark Seif, leaving Seif much worse off and with a smaller ownership stake than his original performance contract intended.

The whole Scott Tom thing, too. Circles within circles, but some of them are pretty damned tight.

But wait, there's more! Last year, listeners over at Bryan Micon's Donkdown Radio site were treated to an impromptu interview with Travis Makar, who is generally described as Russ Hamilton's computer guy. Among other things, Makar, his wife and his mother also had their names on cheating accounts controlled by Russ. Makar went on Donkdown to discuss a few things and hinted at a secret recording that was made of UB execs once the UB cheating scandal erupted.

Makar won't talk about this recording, which I had previously learned of anyway, and which was made by Russ Hamilton himself. The added tidbit coming from his Donkdown interview is where he accidentally let slip one of the participants in the meeting -- Daniel Friedberg. Among the topics relayed as being discussed in that meeting were that several people cheated using God Mode, that they had to discuss what percentage of cheated funds they'd had to give back, and decide who could be left off the refund list.

This means that at the very least, Friedberg actively participated in the cheating coverup at at least one site, UB, if not also over at AP. This is one dirty attorney. Maybe that fact should be added to that Strathmore's "Who's Who" listing Friedberg seems to be fond of.

Was Friedberg one of the actual hole-card cheaters? It seems odd that corporate counsel would have access to the cheating tool, but stranger things have happened. Nonetheless, sources have indicated Friedberg may have indeed been involved, and while the actual hand histories that would prove or disprove Friedberg's involvement remain sealed, he is confirmed to have played on the site from 2000 onward. Friedberg had at least three UB accounts -- "SEATTLE", "DANRAYN" and "BIGLOULEO" -- that date from UB's earliest days, and all readers are free to research those accounts to check win rates and look for suspicious hands. There may have been other Friedberg accounts as well.

Should the real hand histories ever be made public, they could prove Friedberg's innocence (or guilt). This writer makes no definitive accusation, beyond the scummy lawyerly stuff, but merely notes that the wall of smoke surrounding Friedberg remains firmly in place.

There's also the strange departure of Hellmuth from Cereus at the end of 2010, which to my knowledge has never been adequately explained. Annie Duke was already off contract and was being paid a monthly retainer, and she and Scott Tom hated each other's guts anyway; no surprise she was jettisoned. Yet Hellmuth's contract, according to AP insiders, lasted at least another year, and Hellmuth seems to have invited AP to void his deal by showing up at a December '10 poker tourney wearing "Aria"-branded gear. Doing so was probably a million-dollar decision and seems decidedly unlike the dollar-focused Hellmuth, unless he was tipped off to something bad in the works, which generally describes the Norwegian tax mess then just beginning to swirl around Absolute Poker. With back-looking perspective, one possible explanation now emerges: Did Friedberg tip off Hellmuth that it was time to get out?

http://usdir.org/crest-law-group-pllc-seattle-wa-98103.htm

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Business Name:   Crest Law Group Pllc
Contact Person:   Ryan Straus
Address:   600 North 36th St # 324 Seattle, Washington 98103

INAL, thus correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't lawyers as a whole bright folks that perform all sorts of investigations thingies? If so, then why were/is Patrick Murck and Jon Matonis kowtowing the likes of them? I wonder if any of this has to do with the missing millions over at The Bitcoin Foundation. Hmmmmmmmmm!
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