How stole a poker site 440 million U.S. dollars from players

Online poker site Full Tilt Poker has stolen 440 million dollars, diverting the sums deposited byplayers to give substantial bonuses to members of its administration, prosecutor's officeannounced on Tuesday in Manhattan.
       Full Tilt Poker "cheat the players by making them believe that the amounts which theysubmitted for this game were safe and were available at all times," said in a statement from the Prosecutor's Office Preet Bharara Manhattan .
      "Full Tilt poker site was not legal, but a true Ponzi scheme," he added, referring to the famouspyramid-type scam that brought former finance world tycoon Bernard Madoff a conviction of150 years in prison .

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