CEO of Online Poker Site Arrested for Ponzi Scheme

The chief executive of Full Tilt Poker, the beleaguered one-time Web poker giant, was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport as the government unveiled new criminal charges against him related to an alleged Ponzi scheme. Ray Bitar, 40 years old, is the most significant person yet to turn himself into the Justice Department's 15-month-long effort to prosecute the three one-time leading online poker companies in the U.S.