Former BetonSports CEO pleads guilty

[The Buzz]

Former BetOnSports CEO David Carruthers pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy Wednesday in U.S. District court in Missouri in a case that has been on-going since 2006.

Carruthers was arrested by FBI agents at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on July 16, 2006 shortly after the company was hit with federal racketeering charges.

From CasinoCity:

"Illegal sports gambling across state and international borders by telephone or (the) Internet is a crime," said Hanaway. "Misuse of the Internet to violate the law can ultimately only serve to harm legitimate businesses."

According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Carruthers will agree to cooperate with prosecutors on other cases related to BetOnSports, including the upcoming trial of BetOnSports founder Gary Kaplan. Prosecutors will drop seven charges and recommend no more than 33 months in jail for Carruthers, according to the Post-Dispatch. Carruthers was facing a penalty of 20 years in prison and/or fines up to $250,000.

[raphnix]

Former BetOnSports CEO David Carruthers pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy Wednesday in U.S. District court in Missouri in a case that has been on-going since 2006.

Carruthers was arrested by FBI agents at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport on July 16, 2006 shortly after the company was hit with federal racketeering charges.

From CasinoCity:

I don't particularly know about the illegal issue of sports betting through telephone in US until now. I think I'll research about that here in our country in case that's illegal too. Any idea?

[casinojack]

Yeah as usual the us has a nice way to interpret laws they see fit. Thanks to Kennedy and his brothers efforts against the MOB, we now have some laws that needed revisiting

Don't forget when this arrest happened, was BEFORE UGIEA