Poker boss arrested over Ponzi scheme

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The boss of the Full Tilt Poker website was arrested at the start of the week over criminal charges related to an alleged multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme. He didn't even make it off the plane before police picked him up, just after he landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Raymond Bitar, 40, pleaded not guilty to charges of illegal gambling and defrauding thousands of poker players. He is one of the most high-profile arrests so far in the US government's action against the three biggest online poker companies: Absolute Poker, Full Tilt and PokerStars. 11 people have been charged and the US government has seized the firms' internet domain names.