And it has: Following federal charges against executives from both companies, dozens of the more than 2,300 websites that service online gambling have stopped taking U.S. wagers.
This quote from that article – there are no charges pending against any current executives of Neteller as far as I know. Their original founders were arrested. Seems like Neteller jumped the gun freezing the money before any official action has been taken on them. Unless they just decided to suddenly be proactive (of course a day late) and work out a deal with DOJ and screw their customers in the process.
Somebody needs to start an ewallet that only transacts money with individuals/establishments that do gaming business with non US customers. You know, a small part of the market is better than none. Plus, if the US ever gets regulated they would be sitting in a good position.
All of these programs and money processors that were saying “business as usual” this past October were really just trying to get a last piece of the money before everything was shut down. And what this does is that for the people that tried to say within the law, they are screwed just like the people that are flaunting it. Again, I never cease to be amazed by the greed of the dummies and their shortsightedness.