Lederer Files' drama

PokerNews has recently released "The Lederer Files" a series of interviews with Howard Lederer on the Full Tilt Poker scandal. The series was split in 7 parts that account for over three hours of material. Lederer told his side of the story, but some notable players have it different. In case you didn't watch the videos or are not willing to watch it but still want to know what is it all about, CalvinAyre.com did a thorough summary of each episode. You can read the first one here.

In an interview with PokerListings, which took place after the release of Lederer Files, Daniel Negranu stands firm on his position that Lederer is a criminal: "Yes, and Howard admits it in the interview. The crime I see as inexcusable is what happened post BF. The company had no money, yet press releases were sent out claiming player funds were safe and secure. Worse yet, they continued to accept rest of world deposits despite being insolvent. The fact that the company started out as a legitimate business now becomes totally irrelevant. Post BF they were, for lack of a better word, running something similar to a ponzi scheme. Using ROW funds to hopefully pay back US players."

Negranu also believes that a part of Lederer's version of events will be contradicted by Phil Ivey and John Juanda. "First of all, I can't wait until more people speak out so the whole truth comes out. Juanda took great offense to Howard's comments about him, and Juanda is 100% in the right. I've spoken to Ivey, and I'm confident he will speak out as he is not in the least happy about the lies being told. When you hear Ivey's side of the story, I'm extremely confident people will fully understand that Ivey wasn't in the wrong at all," Negreanu said.

There's still no word from Phil Ivey, but Juanda has addressed Lederer's comments via twitter. It was all after Lederer said that Juanda was the second-largest sharedholder in the company and called him out for not paying back his loan from FTP and for refusing (a while ago) to sign the deal with PokerStars. Besides giving his side of the facts, Juanda accused FTP management with stealing $5.4 million from Erik Seidel. He will probably speak about the whole thing with more details after the World Series of Poker Europe is over.

Check Juanda's tweets (open the spoiler tag to read them):

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Howard

not really surprised it turns out that way.

what usually happens to suckers like him when they are revealed in their true nature is they struggle with their last strength to prove that they r not in fact pity lil creatures whoo screwed everything up and fucked many people up just cause they r selfish and arrogant
cant even come forward and admit to the things he s done althought there is more than enough evidence about it thats beyond pathetic ... doesnt he have at least a drop of self respect

disgusting how his name is so similiar to Federer's

On September 22 2012 22:46 tapatapaz wrote: disgusting how his name is so similiar to Federer's

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jesus I can't believe I actually wrote Federer T_T

patience on 230k here isn't an issue at all, I agree w/ JJ 100% here.

On September 23 2012 04:44 NeillyJQ wrote: patience on 230k here isn't an issue at all, I agree w/ JJ 100% here.

As does everyone!

i gave up watching that lowlife trying to explain what "actually" happened about 5 minutes into the first video but i'm not surprised he's trying to pass blame to other people and generally just being a fat asshole

Somebody pasted that on tlpoker.pl:


And this:

ROFL defrag