Today, the USAO upped the ante with an amended complaint alleging that Full Tilt Poker was a global Ponzi Scheme whose board had enriched its owners by taking more than $440 million dollars in funds deposited by online gamblers for their own use. The United States Attorney Office for the Southern District of New York received a flurry of attention in April, 2011 when they unsealed an indictment against the three largest Internet poker companies in the United States-Absolute Poker, Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars-for fraud, gambling and money laundering.