Poker player Travell Thomas is among 15-people charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a bogus debt collection agency that took $31m from victims during a four year period.

World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) gold ring winner, Travell Thomas, 37, is one of 15 people currently staring down the barrel of a 20-year jail sentence after being charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

According to a press release issued by the United States Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York, Thomas was the co-owner, president and CEO of a fraudulent debt collection company that stole $31 million between Jan 2010 and Nov 2014.

The unsealing of the indictment was undertaken by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, the same man who unsealed the Black Friday indictments.