Absolute Poker co-founder Scott Tom has returned to his home in Antigua after serving a week in a United States jail on illegal gambling charges. Tom faced multiple felony charges after being indicted on April 15, 2011… also known as Black Friday. He reached a plea deal with US prosecutors on May 31 in which he agreed to plead guilty to a single count of being an accessory after the fact in the transmission of gambling information (a misdemeanor). As part of his plea deal, Tom agreed to forfeit $300,000k and was released on bail ahead of his sentencing on…

Courier Mail – Daniel Tzvetkoff, the Queensland business whiz who became an informant and key player in the shutting down of America’s multimillion-dollar online poker industry, could avoid more jail time in the US. Tzvetkoff faced a 75-year sentence in a federal jail when he was arrested in Las Vegas in 2010 for illegally processing more than $US1 billion, but the 31-year-old, along with his parents and mother-in-law, have made a passionate plea to a New York judge ahead of his sentencing. Tzvetkoff, who handed over more than 90,000 documents to US prosecutors that helped them go after the heads…

Gaming Intelligence – A New York art gallery owner has been sentenced to one year in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $6.4m in connection with his leadership role in the operation of a high stakes illegal online sports gambling business. Two other men were also sentenced yesterday to five years in prison for participating in a racketeering conspiracy related to the same case. Preet Bharara, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said that Hillel Nahmad was sentenced yesterday by District Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan federal court to one year and one day in…