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Bodog's Above the Law?

In a case that only continues to get more interesting as time progresses, the litigation between Bodog Entertainment Group and 1st Technology heated up as 1st technology shut down the Bodog online casino gambling site last week. Bodog has consistently avoided the U.S. Department of Justice, and any court rulings in fact in the U.S. Over the past several months, Bodog failed to appear at two U.S. court dates, and the plaintiff, 1st Technology was awarded default judgment to the tune of US $48.6 million. 1st Technology brought Bodog up on charges of patent infringement concerning online casinos gaming technology – and Bodog has systematically ignored all U.S. rulings and actions.

The CEO at Bodog, Calvin Ayre, is careful not to step onto U.S. soil because the U.S. Department of Justice is hunting down online casino company executives that have violated the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. And Bodog has certainly violated the U.S. online casinos ban, and continues to do so. Ayre is even smug about the fact that the U.S. has no power to actually enforce the UIGEA or to force Bodog to pay the $48.6 million judgment for patent infringement.

Ayre interviewed with Forbes magazine recently about the ongoing online casino issues with the U.S. According to the interview with Ayre, "Bodog [handles] $7.3 billion dollars of revenue which translates to over $4.8 billion in revenue in the United States with revenue growing 300 per cent per year since 2004. And then, concerning Ayre’s personal wealth, the interview notes that Ayre “has amassed a current wealth of $1 billion, which was derived in large part through infringement of 1st Technology LLC's patent.”

The tricky part about the whole situation is that Bodog is purposefully gloating and even goading the U.S. Department of Justice because they have no real recourse until they can get a top Bodog executive under arrest, or extradited back to the U.S. to face charges for violating the online casinos ban.