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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A French investment group hoping to buy an online poker operator dogged with legal troubles has a preliminary agreement with U.S. prosecutors that would help gamblers get their money back.Benham Dayanim, a lawyer for Groupe Bernard Tapie, told The Associated Press on Friday that he has a signed agreement from the U.S. attorney's office in New York that could broker Full Tilt Poker's sale.A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office declined to comment.Dayanim says the group would try to restart Full Tilt's operations overseas. Under the deal, the group would pay players outside the U.S., while Americans who gambled at the site would send claims to the Justice Department.Full Tilt was effectively shut down after its assets were seized and its executives were indicted in April on charges of financial crimes.
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