The U.S. government has once again extended the deadline to decide whether to indict Neteller co-founders Stephen Lawrence and John Lefebvre, the U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO) for the Southern District of New York said today.
Lawrence and Lefebvre were arrested in January and charged with money laundering in connection with Internet gambling.
"The date has been rolled over by the Judge, in the interest of justice, for another 30 days," Rebekah Carmichael, a spokesperson for the USAO, told IGN. "As a point of fact, all parties must be agreed for this to occur."
The new date for preliminary hearing is April 16.
The first hearing, set for Feb. 14, was also postponed in the interest of justice.
Carmichael has explained that these hearings are set as "calendar placeholders," or deadlines for the government to bring forth an indictment.
"The preliminary hearing date is set as a marker on the calendar, the date by which the Government has to indict the case, ask for an extension on the date or decide not to indict," Carmichael said. "It does not reflect a scheduled hearing."
Carmichael said there is no limit to the amount of times a preliminary hearing can be rolled over. Nonetheless, for the Southern District of New York, it would be unusual to postpone a third time, she added.