-- MONTREAL -- Confidence in the ability of Mohawk regulators to police lucrative online gambling operations on the Kahnawake reserve has been shaken following the second cheating scandal in less than a year.**********
UltimateBet.com, which is owned by a company controlled by former Kahnawake grand chief Joe Norton, acknowledged on Thursday that unnamed insiders had altered its poker software to allow them to see opponents' hidden cards.
UltimateBet officials declined to be interviewed yesterday.
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...playing Quebec Rules...
Now, you might think this would qualify as a Big Deal. You might think it merited serious investigation, followed by ruthless prosecution, followed smartly by a few large cheeses being strung up by their thumbs, preferably in public and in prime time.(h/t reader rich)
The message might have gotten through that Quebecers will not accept this sort of criminality.
Yet none of the institutions we depend on for truth and justice seem to give a damn. All have given it the big yawn.
Banana republics are, by comparison, models of diligence and integrity.
I'll be filing all this in a folder whose title sums up a memorable mess: VOTE THEFT. Just an incredible story, and one that has not done us proud.