FTR - they have gotten back to me, but they are pretty firm on the issue of keeping their licensing obscured. Since they are US facing, they don't want the ownership to come under unwanted scrutiny. That's understandable, but they aren't selling shoes. This is gambling and licensing (read: player assurances) is a big part of it. The way Liberty Slots is going about this is a recipe for disaster. My recommendation to them is to drop the US market and focus on countries that are casino friendly.
But then - that would be bad for business, and we couldn't have that.
Sounds like bullshit.
Since when does knowing where a casino is licensed expose the ownership.
Many casinos use private companies incorporated in secretive locations like Belize to obscure the ownership without having to obscure the licensing.
Also, what legitimate jurisdiction even allows licensing information to be kept secret from players.
I can only assume that they don't have a "gambling license" at all, and in fact only have one of those "licenses to run an offshore business" from some place like Panama, Belize, Costa Rica, and keeping it secret allows them to claim it is a "gambling license" to players and webmasters alike.
The US authorities in any case go after the processors, not the offshore owners, as this is where the money is. Confiscation of large sums of money does more damage to an offshore casino than producing an indictment that may never get used because the owners steer clear of the US.
Following the trail back through a processor will probably come pretty close to identifying the owners in any case, as it will end at a bank account in a particular country.
Maybe they have something else to hide, and using the excuse of having to hide from the DoJ is their cover story.
If anything goes wrong, they can simply disappear overnight, leaving nowhere for players to go for their money.
I expect the software company is also a bogus front, as surely they would want to keep this hidden from the DoJ too.
English Harbour seemed to shut down under strange circumstances. There was nothing to suggest they were struggling financially, and they were very popular with US players. They vanish without trace, and then a few months later a completely new operator turns up with the same software, with an unsubstantiated claim that the software was sold on to a new company, that itself boasts of having been around for 14 years, and that the new operator had nothing to do with EH.
Despite this, the new operator was able to use the old EH website, the SAME server it seems, and was suspected of having the use of the old EH player database with which to kick start it's launch.
Following the old "dead" trail back through EH may well reveal more about LS than attempts to follow any new trail.
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