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He solemnly swears he was up to ZERO funny business.

Tobey Maguire is in the middle of a nasty lawsuit. He's being accused of playing in an illegal poker tournament that conned more than $300,000 from a convicted felon.

Yeah, it's a fishy story and Tobey is out to set to record straight about it. His answer to the lawsuit, which he put into writing in a legal filing, is that these tournaments were not "controlled games," which required the host to have a license. Furthermore, he insists that there was no scheme on his part to defraud anyone. If anything, the person who is suing him should be looked into further as he is currently serving time for defrauding a bunch of people out of more than $50 million in a Ponzi scheme.

In the legal documents Tobey filed today, he "admits that

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Earlier this week, we heard all about an underground poker game which is attended by Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck.

As we mentioned before, the game is run by "a Beverly Hills hedge fund manager who embezzled investor funds and orchestrated a Ponzi scheme in a desperate bid to pay off his monster debt to the star and others."

We had also mentioned that Tobey Maguire is

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