The latest chapter in The Lodge Card Club raid, bank account seizures and abrupt closure has the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) denying a public records request to the owner of a self-described “irrelevant website”, PokerFraudAlert (he’s obviously being tongue and cheek with the labeling).
But poker pro Todd Witteles may want to refer to Costigan Media vs. USA.
Costigan Media is the parent company of Gambling911.com and we won our legal challenge well over a decade ago whereby internet news outlets (everything from the likes of Gambling911 to Breitbart to HuffPost to PokerFraudAlert) were afforded the same rights as legacy media when making such requests…