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The April 15th Black Friday lawsuits turned even uglier this week as the US Department of Justice expand their pursuit of indictments outside of just operators, processors and the owners/directors to include software programmers.

David Parchomchuk, a software programmer and owner of ThrillX Systems, was one of the men named in the second wave of indictments last week. Parchomchuk is one of the owners of ThrillX Systems which many customers will know as BetEd.com.

BetED.com formerly provided online poker, sports betting (including NFL spreads/totals and money lines) and real money casino wagering to customers around the world, including the USA. After Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and UB/Absolute Poker’s domain were seized by the FBI on April 15th, BetEd.com became one of the few remaining online poker and sports betting sites that still accepted new US accounts to be registered and deposit money. As mentioned in our previous articles, since then a large number of US-facing gambling sites have been indicted including Bookmaker.com, TruePoker.com, BetMaker.com, DoylesRoom.com and more.

Other US gambling operators such as BetCris.com and Sportsbook.com had elected to voluntarily stop accepting US players as of May 1st 2011 in order to avoid any law suits.

As mentioned in our last article on this indictment, the FBI apparently “caught” ThrillX Systems after creating a fake payment processing company called Linwood Payment Solutions. The FBI then did business with ThrillX Systems and has since seen that BetEd.com players from Panama have successfully deposited and withdrawn over $2.5 billion through Linwoord Payment Solutions.

David Parchomchuk was charged by the Grand Jury for the District of Maryland along with his partner Darren Wright, co-owner of ThrillX Systems for money laundering in the online gambling business. However, their lawyer has stated that the two of them are both just software programmers and should be completely free of any charges related to money laundering. Neither of them own a company share certificate, domain registration or anything related to BetEd.com yet they have still been charged in the indictment.

We'll just have to wait and see if they are cleared due to these findings but I think they should be as long as software programming really was the only thing they were doing for the indicted companies.

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