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There is nothing but silence from Alwyn Morris, one of Canada's most respected native leaders, over a claim by BC con man Calvin Ayre that he has entered into a criminal conspiracy with Morris' company, Morris Mohawk Gaming.

In probably the first time a criminal conspiracy has been announced in a press release, Ayre said that Morris Mohawk had entered into a licensing agreement that would see it operate all of Bodog's gaming operations in North America, which is essentially the US so far as Bodog operations go. All of Bodog's operations in the US are against the criminal law of that country and a number of similar operations and individuals have been, or are being, prosecuted there and jail terms have resulted.

Section 465 (3) of Canada's Criminal Code says,

(3) Every one who, while in Canada, conspires with any one to do anything referred to in subsection (1) in a place outside Canada that is an offence under the laws of that place shall be deemed to have conspired to do that thing in Canada.

This section of the criminal law would appear to be capable of bringing not only Alwyn Morris, but Calvin Ayre, before the Canadian courts on charges of conspiring in Canada to violate the United States Code. However, it must be remembered that the only link that Morris has to this crime is a claim by Ayre in a press release, and a quote supposedly from Morris that would indicate he actually is in the agreement. Until some concrete affirmation of his involvement is made by Morris himself through credible sources, no one should consider the Order of Canada holder as part of this conspiracy. However, concrete affirmation could take the form of Morris appearing as a party in any US court action seeking to reverse the recent judgments against Bodog in Nevada and Washington courts.


The Mohawk Gambit, as it is now called, appears to be the best Ayre can do as a strategy in dealing with the devastating legal actions brought on by 1st Technology LLC, a Nevada company that holds a patent on processes within the Bodog gaming software and on which Bodog has refused to acquire a license and pay royalties. As part of the legal actions, 1st Technology has gained control of Bodog's domain names, resulting in a very serious loss of search engine ranking for Bodog with typical gaming search queries. The transparent strategy appears to be to claim that an agreement existed between Bodog and Morris to operate the licenses, which would include the lost domains, that predated the court's judgment and hence Morris had a right to operate the domains that should not be lost by the claims against Bodog.

It's typical Calvin Ayre, nothing really different than the criminal approach he has been taking to business since his Bicer Medical days. Undoubtably, no agreement ever existed with Morris prior to the 1st Tech actions. Any claim to the contrary would have to involve perjury if brought to the US courts, as well as charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Ayre may soon be seeing the inside of a Canadian courtroom at any rate. Some years ago, he perjured himself in an affidavit filed in BC Supreme Court in support of his sister Anita Ayre aka Anita Eden in a child custody dispute. In what was the most preposterous of a string of lies advanced by Ayre/Eden, Calvin Ayre swore under oath that he had nothing to do with a 1987 marijuana smuggling scheme that resulted in a four year sentence for his father, Kenneth Ayre. A private information charging perjury against Calvin Ayre, and conspiracy to obstruct justice against both Calvin Ayre and Anita Ayre/Eden will be filed in October in provincial court in Vancouver.

Don't be surprised if his defense has something to do with Mohawks.