April 15, 2011, is a day that will forever be remembered as the one that changed the landscape of online poker, especially in the United States. It was that day that many lives were turned upside-down after the U.S. Department of Justice cracked down on major online poker operators.
One of those operators was Full Tilt Poker, then operating with its own independence. In September 2011, the DOJ amended the Black Friday complaint to include allegations that Full Tilt Poker and its board members had defrauded players. One person named was Howard Lederer.