Life Real Loud: John Lefebvre, Neteller and the Revolution in Online Gambling

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I was arrested at home in Malibu. I was just sitting down to drink my cup of tea, around nine in the morning, and the intercom rang. The lady from the FBI said, “You have to come to the door immediately.” I stood there, staring at the floor for a few seconds — I was struck dumb a little bit — and then went and answered the door. They came in and put me in handcuffs. They took me down the stairs to my dining room table and started asking questions. My cell phone started to go off … I wasn’t the only one.

Philanthropist John Lefebvre is driving his white Toyota Sierra SUV home. We’re crawling in stop-and-start traffic, heading out of town. Lefebvre used to be a lawyer, and now he’s an alleged money launderer and racketeer. What he wants to be is a professional singer-songwriter, which is why we’re on Santa Monica Boulevard. He’s been working on his first album at a studio called the Village Recorder for almost a month. A microdot of his cash is paying for the name producer, expensive studio, and top-shelf musicianship.

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