The indictment sets up a complicated global legal battle between the Department of Justice and the online poker entrepreneurs who have long argued that their operations in the U.S. In addition, a federal judge issued a restraining order against 76 bank accounts in 14 countries utilized by those online poker firms. Attorney in Manhattan moved to try to shut down the online poker business in America by seizing five Internet domain names, including and, used by the three main companies facilitating online poker games in the U.S.
