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August 21, 2008 (InfoPowa News) — Reports on the lavish spending and personal appearance of ex-Absolute Poker consultant Allan Grimard, and news of an indictment against the father of Absolute Poker founder Scott Tom yesterday on the gambling information portal 911 have ignited legal threats from the troubled poker room’s owners, Tokwiro Enterprises.
Interest in the Tokwiro subsidiaries Absolute Poker and UltimateBet continues as a result of unanswered questions concerning the multi-million dollar “hole card” cheating allegations which have swirled around the companies for months.
Tokwiro needs to be sure of its ground, as 911 has prevailed in other legal struggles and as we went to press was showing no signs of taking the offending article down, instead insisting that its report was based on verifiable fact.
The gambling information portal’s relationship with Absolute Poker has clearly deteriorated, with founder-editor Chris Costigan reporting that his website had been threatened with legal action by Absolute Poker’s Joann Priam.
Priam, whose official designation in not known, apparently demanded that the offending article be removed from the Gambling911.com website, saying: “Our legal counsel is requesting that this be pulled by 6:00 PM EST today or they feel it necessary to issue you a formal letter. This type of situation certainly doesn’t lend itself to a mutually beneficial and rewarding business partnership moving forward.”
The article in question reported that the father of an Absolute Poker founder is under sealed indictment in the US.
