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Edwin Ting was also ordered Tuesday in Manhattan federal court to forfeit $2 million. US Attorney Preet Bharara says that from 2010 through 2013, Ting ran poker games for the Russian mob and took a percentage of pots that reached hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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• Attorney Preet Bharara said: “Edwin Ting and Justin Smith ran high-stakes poker and sportsbook operations, respectively, that handled many millions of dollars in illegal gambling. They were part of an underground enterprise trying to be invisible to law enforcement.
• Ting is a regular in high-stakes cash games. He also finished in 99th place in the 2008 World Poker Tour $25,000 Championship for $39,570. Fellow high-stakes pro Justin 'BoostedJ' Smith was.

Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EDWIN TING was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to five months in prison and ordered to forfeit $2 million for conducting an illegal gambling business. TING was charged in April 2013 along with 33 other alleged members and associates of two Russian-American organized crime enterprises in an indictment that included charges of racketeering, money laundering, extortion, and various gambling offenses. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman.

According to the Indictment, other documents filed in Manhattan federal court, and statements made at various proceedings in this case, including today’s sentencing:

From 2010 through 2013, TING ran what was likely the largest and highest-stakes illegal poker game in New York City. At these games, the pots frequently reached tens, or even hundreds, of thousands of dollars or more. TING collected percentages of the pots, known as “rakes.” He made millions of dollars in profits from operating his illegal poker games. These poker games employed at least five or more people to assist with the operation of the games, payments of debts, and collection of debts.

In addition to the prison term and forfeiture, TING, 42, of New York, New York, was sentenced to two years of supervised release.

Twenty-five defendants in this case have pled guilty. The defendants who have pled to date have agreed to forfeit, in total, more than $68,000,000.00. The following defendants have pled guilty, and have been sentenced or await sentencing:

• Bryan Zuriff pled guilty to gambling charges on July 26, 2013, and was sentenced on November 25, 2013;
• William Barbalat pled guilty to gambling charges on August 14, 2013, and was sentenced on December 16, 2013;
• Kirill Rapoport pled guilty to gambling charges on August 16, 2013, and was sentenced on December 19, 2014;
• Justin Smith pled guilty to gambling charges on September 4, 2013, and was sentenced on January 6, 2013;
• Dmitry Druzhinsky and David Aaron pled guilty to gambling charges on October 4, 2013;
• Alexander Zaverukha pled guilty to gambling charges on October 10, 2013;
• Nicholas Hirsch pled guilty to conspiring to commit wire fraud on October 16, 2013;
• Anatoly Shteyngrob pled guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering on October 17, 2013;
• Yugeshwar Rajkumar pled guilty to gambling charges on October 18, 2013;
• Stan Greenberg pled guilty to conspiring to commit racketeering on October 22, 2013;
• Arthur Azen pled guilty to conspiring to commit money laundering and conspiring to collect extensions of credit by extortionate means on November 5, 2013;
• Hillel Nahmad pled guilty to gambling charges on November 12, 2013;
• Vadim Trincher pled guilty to conspiring to commit racketeering on November 14, 2013;
• Eugene Trincher pled guilty to gambling charges on November 14, 2013;
• Anatoly Golubchik pled guilty to conspiring to commit racketeering on November 15, 2013;
• Illya Trincher pled guilty to gambling charges on November 15, 2013;
• Ronald Uy pled guilty to structuring financial transactions on November 25, 2013;
• Moshe Oratz pled guilty to gambling charges on December 3, 2013;
• Michael Sall pled guilty to interstate travel in aid of an unlawful activity (illegal gambling) and Jonathan Hirsch pled guilty to gambling charges on December 4, 2013;
• Noah Siegel pled guilty to gambling charges on December 5, 2013;
• Molly Bloom pled guilty to gambling charges on December 12, 2013; and
• Alexander Katchaloff pled guilty to gambling charges on January 16, 2014.

The charges against the remaining eight defendants are merely accusations, and these defendants are presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.

Mr. Bharara praised the investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the New York City Police Department, and the Internal Revenue Service.

The case is being prosecuted by the Office’s Organized Crime Unit. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Harris M. Fischman, Joshua A. Naftalis, Peter Skinner, and Kristy J. Greenberg of the Organized Crime Unit are in charge of the prosecution. Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander Wilson of the Office’s Asset Forfeiture Unit is responsible for the forfeiture aspects of the case.

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Edwin Ting, one of 34 defendants in a large New York City-based sportsbetting and poker ring with ties to both coasts, online gambling sites, and to the Russian mob, was sentenced yesterday in US federal court to five months in prison for his role in running high-stakes poker games on behalf of the ring.

Proceeds from the games, which were raked in violation of New York state law, were allegedly among the funds that were funneled in part to the overseas operations of Alimzhan “Taiwanchik” Tokhtakhounov, an organized crime boss who is alleged to given his blessing and protection to the operations. Ting was alleged to be the operator of the game, often held at the swanky Trump Towers apartment of WPT event winner and case co-defendant Vadim Trincher.

According to a release issued yesterday by the Southern District of New York prosecutor’s office of Preet Bharara, Ting “ran what was likely the largest and highest-stakes illegal poker game in New York City,” from 2010 to 2013. Ting was also responsible for employing at least five other co-defendants in the case as dealers for the long-running games.

Ting himself, according to the release, is alleged to have pulled in millions of rake through the games’ operations. In addition to his five-month term, he was also fined $2,000,000 and will serve two years of supervised probation following the completion of his term, the first five months of which will also include electronic location monitoring.

Ting, 42, was originally scheduled to be sentenced two weeks ago, but the sentencing hearing was delayed two weeks due to scheduling conflicts with the USAO prosecuting attorney for his case. Ting is the fifth defendant in the case to receive formal sentencing in the case after reaching a plea deal last fall, following sentences for Bryan Zuriff, William Barbalat, Kirill Rapoport and Justin “BoostedJ” Smith.

Of the five, Ting’s five-month sentence is the second-stiffest term handed out to date, though longer terms are likely in some of the cases that will see sentencing hearings in the next two months. The USAO Southern District of New York office has also collected over $68 million in fines from the 25 of the case’s 33 defendants who have agreed to plea deals to date. Seven of the remaining eight defendants are also negotiating deals or planning for trial, with only Tokhtakhounov, the international crime boss who is wanted by the United States on other charges as well, still at large.

As for Ting, who has three WPT cashes over $10,000 in his own poker career, he was originally charged with three counts in the case: (1) A money-laundering conspiracy charge in connection with one of three connected rings within the operation, called the “Nehmad-Trincher Ring” (referring to Vadim Trincher’s son Illya; (2) a count of operating an unlawful poker business (the count to which Ting actually pled guilty in the plea deal); and (3) a Travel Act violation, referring to the crossing of state lines in conjunction with the financial operations of the gambling ring’s activities.

Ting is expected to report to a federal prison in Fort Dix, NJ on or before March 21, 2014, to begin serving his sentence.

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