17-Jan-07. Uncle Sam nabs Net millionaires. Globe and Mail, B1.

John Lefebvre and Stephen Lawrence were charged yesterday with laundering billions of dollars worth of gambling proceeds through Neteller PLC, an Internet payment company they founded in 1999. Neteller enables people to transfer money from their bank accounts to merchants around the world and has proven popular with online gamblers. In complaints filed yesterday in a New York court, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia alleged the Canadian businessmen knew that Neteller’s activities were illegal in the United States when they took their company public in 2004.