Phil Ivey, former Full Tilt Poker superstar
Luciaetta Ivey, ex-wife of Phil Ivey, filed a petition with the Nevada Supreme Court last week alleging the judge in her divorce from the poker player was compromised. Apparently the family court judge, Bill Gonzales, received campaign contributions from Phil Ivey plus additional contributions from Ivey's lawyer, David Chesnoff.
The uncontested divorce to end the seven year marriage was granted in December, 2009 and within a month Judge Gonzales received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the Phil Ivey camp.
Read a complete accounting of events and opinions surrounding the Ivey divorce along with the subsequent claims of judicial impropriety in an article, Judicial bias alleged in Ivey Divorce, by Cari Geer Thevenot appearing in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
