‘60 Minutes’ may do Absolute Poker scandal story
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Nat Arem, one of the people who investigated and uncovered the Absolute Poker superuser scandal, wrote on his blog that “60 Minutes” may be doing a story on online poker and AP.
While the story is far from a sure thing, Arem believes the show is in the middle of working on it, and he thinks it may have a negative tilt/impact on online poker.
From his blog:
I’ve been holding off on telling people about this because the 60 Minutes producer prefers that it be kept under wraps for the time being, but it appears that some other poker news sources are jumping at the opportunity to break this story. I don’t think I can reasonably sit on this any longer. Therefore, I am going to go ahead and just let the information out of the bag.
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by 60 Minutes in conjunction with a reporter from the Washington Post regarding a story about the Absolute Poker scandal from last fall. I was told that they wanted Adanthar and myself for on-camera interviews with Steve Kroft. I later found out they were also interested in interviewing Michael Josem and Marco Johnson. Basically, I spent a little while on the phone with the producer and the Washington Post reporter and recapped the whole story as well as I could from memory. I talked about my involvement and contribution, along with all the other people who were involved.
After that conversation, I found out that 60 Minutes plans on going to a number of different locations. I’ve heard that Canada, Costa Rica and Las Vegas are all possible travel locations. I may or may not be meeting up with 60 Minutes in Costa Rica, if and when they come down. There’s also the possibility that I will end up on-camera in Atlanta.
You can read the whole blog entry here.
Arem says that if he gets on camera, he will equate this to online poker’s “Enron”: the worst scandal in the industry’s history, but not a commonplace occurrence.
