On Monday, poker pro Chris “Jesus” Ferguson filed four claims to seized Full Tilt Poker funds with the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. In the filings, Ferguson, representing the various companies that comprise Full Tilt, claims that the companies have a “right, title, or interest” in the assets in the accounts and that the respective companies were the “lawful owner(s)” of the accounts.
The first of the four claims, Filing 110, was filed on behalf of Filco, Ltd, one of the companies that makes up Full Tilt Poker. Two accounts were listed in the claim, though no dollar amounts were noted.
Filing 111 was for the Kolyma Corporation and this one listed many accounts. While dollar amounts were not included for every account, for those that were, the total was $98,276,540. The breakdown of accounts is as follows:
$25,297,322 – in the name of SunFirst Bank
$14,740,855 – 8 accounts in the name of 21Debit LLC and 4 A Consulting
Undisclosed amount – 1 in the name of ULTRA SAFE PAY and 1 in the name of Grifting Investments Ltd **
$9,655,075 – 3 accounts in the name of Trinity Global Commerce Corp.
$9,632,834 – 10 accounts in the name of G.I. Holdings
$4,916,977 – 8 accounts in the name of SNR, Inc.
$23,696,003 – 3 accounts in the name of Viable Marketing Corp, 2 in the name of Viable Processing Solutions
$10,337,474 – 5 accounts in the name of LST Financial
Undisclosed amount – 2 in the name of Vantage Limited
Undisclosed amount – 2 in the name of Wirecard Bank AG
Filing 112 was for Tiltware LLC and was almost identical to Filing 111 above. The dollar amounts were all the same, as were most of the accounts. There were two accounts with undisclosed dollar amounts in the Tiltware claim that were not in the Kolyma claim and the Vantage Limited and Wirecard Bank accounts from the Kolyma claim absent from the Tiltware claim.
Similar to the first filing, Filing 113 for Pocket Kings Ltd was brief. It listed 11 accounts and did not offer up any dollar totals.
One notable aspect of the Kolyma and Tiltware claims, in addition to the $98 million, was the following sentence:
“Those accounts contain funds deposited by Full Tilt Poker players to be transferred to Tiltware related entities or funds deposited by Tiltware related entities that were in the process of being returned to Full Tilt Poker players.”
Also on Monday, Ferguson filed a motion in U.S. District Court to allow attorney Ian J. Imrich to practice pro hac vice as his counsel in the “Black Friday” case. Judge Leonard B. Sand approved the motion, which essentially means that even though Imrich is not licensed to practice law in New York (he is licensed in California), he is now permitted to do so for this case. Ferguson’s attorney, Jonathan Harris, vouched for Imrich in the motion.
** Could there be a more perfect company name than Grifting Investments Ltd for this case? It sounds like something a disgruntled customer would have edited into Full Tilt Poker’s Wikipedia page.
How do you file a cliaim to get your money back from Full Tilt??
Why is Ferguson not in the same boat as Lederer? It would be a major travesty if anyone gets one cent before the US players see their funds returned.