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A Professional Poker Player Is Sentenced to a Year in Prison for Hosting Illegal Streaming

Talon White, a self-reported 31-year old professional poker player from Newport, Oregon, has been sentenced to prison for 12 months after admitting his guilt and confessing that he ran subscription-based websites, streaming copyright-protected TV shows and movies to users illegally.

The defendant was arrested in November 2019 and charged with tax evasion and copyright infringement.

White was scheduled for sentencing last year, but the trial was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Initially, his sentence was for up to five years of prison time.

Read the source article at Gambling News

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