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    Dude embezzled $22M from company to enter poker tourneys


     
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    All so he could do stuff like this lol

     
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    fminc would be proud
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    good to see LATB continues it's tradition of having the biggest scumbags in poker on it's show...

     
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    He's a lifetime winner in tournament poker unlike Druff.

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    A former executive at a Los Angeles digital marketing company has been arrested on suspicion of embezzling $22 million from his employer and using it for personal expenses including buy-ins at professional poker tournaments.

    The U.S. Attorney’s Office says an indictment unsealed Thursday charges Dennis Blieden with wire fraud and identity theft. He was arrested Wednesday in Las Vegas. It wasn’t immediately known if the 29-year-old has an attorney.

    Blieden was a vice president of accounting and finance for StyleHaul, a company that represents “influencers” on YouTube and Instagram.

    Prosecutors say he controlled the firm’s finances and transferred money to his personal bank accounts, using it to pay off credit card debts and make investments in crypto-currency. He paid more than $150,000 to enter two poker tournaments.
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    Plot twist. NyPokerFraudOfficial on instagram is claiming Dennis Blieden played on NYPokerKing's PPP site. Which might lead to that poker club being looked at closely.

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    https://www.instagram.com/nypokerfraudofficial/
    This account is good ^^ calls out NYPokerKing.

     
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    Here's the indictment: https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr...player-charged

    I wonder if they're going to come after the poker players (civilly) who received the $1.2 million in "personal checks" of stolen money. Presumably he was just paying back losses or debts with that money, and the poker players had no idea it was stolen, but they might still owe it back.

    The amazing thing is how this guy loaded up so many million in bitcoin yet didn't leave the country before the hammer came down.

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    they took down the video that sah posted....bahahahahah….

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    "The amazing thing is how this guy loaded up so many million in bitcoin yet didn't leave the country before the hammer came down."

    Narcissist trait x 1000. Whack Job.. 36months and 5years prob. my guess. we shall see how this Prediction turns out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GambleBotsChafedPenis View Post


    they took down the video that sah posted....bahahahahah….
    That is almost even funnier lol

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    Looks like he was a huge sports degen and Nitrogen got $9 million from him

    Whoever made this website really has it out for Nitrogen: http://nitrogensportsdennisblieden.com/

    The feds say he blew the stolen cash on poker games and cryptocurrency trades — but what they didn't know about, until now, is the millions of dollars lost in sports betting to offshore casino website Nitrogen Sports. Nitrogen Sports offered Blieden higher limits than other customers, enticing him into losing millions of dollars to them.
    Nitrogen Sports has not returned the stolen funds to the FBI and continues to operate illegally within the United States
    My favorite bet:

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    Quote Originally Posted by duped_samaritan View Post
    Looks like he was a huge sports degen and Nitrogen got $9 million from him

    Whoever made this website really has it out for Nitrogen: http://nitrogensportsdennisblieden.com/

    The feds say he blew the stolen cash on poker games and cryptocurrency trades — but what they didn't know about, until now, is the millions of dollars lost in sports betting to offshore casino website Nitrogen Sports. Nitrogen Sports offered Blieden higher limits than other customers, enticing him into losing millions of dollars to them.
    Nitrogen Sports has not returned the stolen funds to the FBI and continues to operate illegally within the United States
    My favorite bet:

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    i love the bet.detest the odds.

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    Pleaded guilty. Sentencing in March.

    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/p...092505131.html

    Will be interesting to find out if he winds up at a camp or a prison.

     
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnCommode View Post
    Pleaded guilty. Sentencing in March.

    https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/p...092505131.html

    Will be interesting to find out if he winds up at a camp or a prison.
    Not a professional poker player, def fucked though.

    Dennis Blieden, a professional poker player and a former executive at digital marketing company StyleHaul, has pled guilty to charges that he embezzled $22 million from his employer.

    The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced the guilty plea on Friday, saying that Blieden, 30, was the controller and vice president of accounting and finance for StyleHaul between Oct. 2015 and March 2019, and abused this authority to wire company money to his personal bank account.

    Blieden used the money he stole from his employer to write $1,204,000 in personal checks to poker players, $1,134,956 was used to pay off his credit cards, and $8,473,734 was transferred to Blieden’s cryptocurrency accounts, per the announcement.

    “To conceal his scheme, Blieden made fraudulent entries in StyleHaul’s accounting records, falsely representing that the illegal wire transfers he made were authorized payments of money due to StyleHaul clients,” said the attorney’s office. In March 2018, Blieden won World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic (WPT LAPC) and scored a first-place prize of $1 million.

    Blieden was initially indicted and taken into federal custody in July. On Friday, he pled guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft. U.S. district judge Andre Birotte Jr. has scheduled a March 20 sentencing hearing, at which time Blieden will face a statutory maximum sentence of 22 years in federal prison, per the announcement.

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    After many delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 31-year-old Dennis Blieden, who won the 2018 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic for $1 million, was sentenced to 6.5 years in federal prison this week after embezzling millions (originally stated as $22 million by officials) from Los Angeles-based digital company StyleHaul Inc.

    In a 15-page letter to the Honorable Judge André Birotte, Jr. of the Central District Court of California prior to sentencing, Blieden laid out his side of the story citing an extreme gambling addiction and desire to impress poker’s elite as contributing factors to his actions.

    In 2019 as part of a plea deal, Blieden pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for embezzling $2.7 million, much less than the original charge, from 2015 to 2019 as controller and vice president of accounting and finance for StyleHaul Inc. He did so by wiring company money to his personal bank account, which he would then use to gamble and buy cryptocurrency.

    Blieden’s sentence is a little less than that sought in a Government’s Sentencing Memorandum filed on May 26 where prosecutors advocated for “102 months [8.5 years], three years’ supervised release, and the imposition of an order for defendant to pay $22,669,979.07 in restitution.”
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    Quote Originally Posted by shoeshine box View Post
    "The amazing thing is how this guy loaded up so many million in bitcoin yet didn't leave the country before the hammer came down."

    Narcissist trait x 1000. Whack Job.. 36months and 5years prob. my guess. we shall see how this Prediction turns out.


    how close was I? I am Merciful.....he wish ol shoeshine box was his sentencer. word....

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