Following a report that the US Department of Justice was targeting payment processors used by the Merge Network to transfer funds between the network and US customers, traffic on the Merge Network dropped.
PokerScout.com has reported that the Merge Network realized a 10% drop in traffic in the three days immediately following the release of the article as compared to the previous week. The bleeding does not seem to have stopped as prime time traffic on the day of the report declined by 25%.