The State Of Kentucky Collects Its First $100 Million From PokerStars Lawsuit
Circuit Judge Allows State To Collect Bonds Posted At The Start Of The Appellate Process, But Will Have Trouble Collecting The Rest Of The $1.3 Billion
by Steve Schult
| Published: Apr 23, 2021
The state of Kentucky is collecting the first $100 million of the $1.3 billion it won in a lawsuit against online poker giant PokerStars.
Franklin Circuit Judge Thomas Wingate told the state Tuesday that it could collect the $100 million that the company was forced to post while the decade-long legal battle played out in court, according to the
Lexington Herald-Ledger.
Last December, a Kentucky Supreme Court judge ruled in favor of the state and ordered the company to pay the 10-figure sum. It reinstated Wingate’s original ruling from 2015 when he ordered the site to pay $870 million.
Michael Taylor thought he might die alone in the Shelby County Detention Center.
Taylor had been sick with the coronavirus for weeks. It was early March, and he was living in a cell with 19 other people, some of whom had not yet tested positive for the virus. Taylor’s symptoms got worse and worse until medical staff quarantined him in the cell usually reserved for people in solitary confinement.
On March 3, the first night he spent in what he calls the hole, Taylor said he was having trouble breathing.
“I could die in here and nobody’s ever even come around and said anything,” Taylor said the next day, when jail staff let him out for an hour to make phone calls. “I feel like this little sentence that I got just turned into a life sentence.”
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