John Campos, a former official of the SunFirst Bank, was recently sentenced for his involvement in a major online poker case. Campos plead guilty to a charge of misdemeanor banking and was sentenced to three months in jail for processing payments to an illegal poker site in the United States.
Campos was part of the group that was that charged last April as part of Black Friday. Along with Campos, the founders of top poker sites, PokerStars, Absolute Poker and Full Tilt Poker were also charged. The SunFirst Bank was found to have processed over $200 million of online poker transactions for online poker sites, including Full Tilt Poker.
Before the hearing, Campos’ lawyer submitted a memo, which was thirty pages long, to the judge. The memo argued that despite the crime he had admitted to committing, Campos has lived ‘an exemplary life’. Campos’ attorneys went on to write that he was the least culpable among others charged in the case.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of Manhattan sentenced Campos to three months in prison for his part in the case. Campos was part owner and vice president of the bank and he was charged for allow his bank to process poker payments which is illegal in the US. Kaplan spoke out to Campos in court stating that he was ‘shocked’ by the testimony of a former lawyer of the bank. The lawyer testified that he advised Campos to not accept the payments because they would violate laws.
Kaplan stated: “You knew that what you were doing in connection with this bank was illegal and you went along anyway.” Kaplan then sentenced Campos to the jail time as well as three years probation. Campos accepted a plea deal Campos also agreed to be banned from ever serving as a director or officer of a bank.
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