He brushes off the fact that his newstrategicpartner operates in the U.S. while the Justice Department takes the position that facilitating for-money online poker violates U.S. law.
Underwriters argue that a young company would do better to set aside shares for a newstrategic partner--instead of handing out a bonus to investors who have already made a bundle.
He is defraying the associated costs with the sale of vast quantities of advanced weaponry to Moscow's ominous newstrategicpartner, Communist China, in an alliance explicitly hostile to the United States.