The signals are mixed when it comes to the United States intentions with online casinos.  On one hand you have Representative Barney Frank promising thousands of poker players at the World Series of Poker that online casinos will be legalized and regulated in the United States by the end of the year.  On the other hand, you have bank seizures of online gambling companies becoming all the more frequent.

The Maryland United States Attorney’s Office seems to be leading the way in these seizures, followed by New York.  Maryland however has created a task force that has a special focus on investigating accounts associated with online casinos under the guise of seeking out fraud and money laundering.

The most recent companies to fall prey to the Maryland United States Attorney’s Office are Forshay Enterprises, Inc. and Electracash, Inc.  Forshay Enterprises currently has six accounts opened with Wachovia Bank.  The funds were seized because authorities claim the accounts are associated with money laundering. 

Both New York and Maryland seem to be relentless in attempting to stand in the way of the multibillion dollar online casino industry doing business of any sort in the United States; there is no sign that they plan to let up either.   

Most of the accounts being seized are not even in Maryland or New York.  As a matter of fact they are on the opposite coast of the country in California.  The most recently seized accounts were in the following cities: La Habra, Anaheim, and Long Beach.  Additional accounts have been seized in New Jersey and South Dakota.