The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) ordered Amaya Gaming to fire four senior execs connected with PokerStars and Full Tilt as a condition of receiving a license to operate online gambling in the state.

On Friday, the DGE released a report of its investigation of Amaya’s $4.9b acquisition of the PokerStars and Full Tilt online gambling companies. The previous week, the DGE announced that it had approved Amaya’s new brands to operate in the state’s regulated online gambling market via its partnership with Atlantic City’s Resorts Casino Hotel.

The announcement came one year after Amaya acquired the Oldford Group, the parent company of both brands, and filed a petition seeking to operate the brands in New Jersey. The report (read it here) details the lengths to which the DGE went to ensure that Amaya has sufficiently distanced itself from the principal figures associated with Stars and Tilt.

OUT WITH THE OLD(FORD)