{"id":8487,"date":"2015-01-09T17:09:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/01\/09\/poker-not-in-the-cards-for-defendants-in-vegas-fbi-ruse-case\/"},"modified":"2015-01-09T17:09:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T17:09:27","slug":"poker-not-in-the-cards-for-defendants-in-vegas-fbi-ruse-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/01\/09\/poker-not-in-the-cards-for-defendants-in-vegas-fbi-ruse-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Poker not in the cards for defendants in Vegas FBI ruse case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nLAS VEGAS (AP) \u2013 A judge says a Malaysian businessman and his son can\u2019t play poker at Las Vegas casinos while they await a ruling on whether the FBI illegally entered their hotel suites to investigate what prosecutors say was a $13 million illegal Internet gambling ring.<\/p>\n<p>\tU.S. Magistrate Judge Carl Hoffman said Thursday he won\u2019t lift an order for Wei Seng \u201cPaul\u201d Phua and his son, Darren Wai Kit Phua, not to gamble while they\u2019re free on a combined $2.5 million bail.<\/p>\n<p>\tHoffman rejected defense lawyers\u2019 arguments that poker poses no risk, and their assurances that the Phuas wouldn\u2019t flee the country.<\/p>\n<p>\tMagistrate Judge Peggy Leen is expected to decide soon whether undercover investigators illegally searched several Caesars Palace suites.<\/p>\n<p>\tDefense attorneys want the evidence that was obtained and the case against the Phuas thrown out.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2013 A judge says a Malaysian businessman and his son can\u2019t play poker at Las Vegas casinos while they await a ruling on whether the FBI illegally entered their hotel suites to investigate what prosecutors say was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}