BetOnSports.com founder out of jail after one year

Written by BrainBetting Team Wednesday, 19 October 2011 13:44

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Gary Kaplan, the colourful & controversial founder of what was once arguably the industry's biggest operator - BetOnSports.com - has completed his one year jail sentence in St. Louis & moved to parts unknown, according to a report in the online information portal Gambling911.

The site quotes "numerous sources" in reporting Kaplan's release, recalling that his chief executive officer, David Carruthers, was also released recently after a prolonged period under house arrest in St Louis.

Carruthers was detained by US officials whilst transitting the United States on a business trip, whilst Kaplan was hunted down & arrested in Dominican Republic by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in one of the major early (pre-UIGEA) online gambling enforcement actions in the United States, using charges that included RICO & money laundering indictments.

The action effectively dismantled BoS in 2006, consigning the Costa Rica-based company to the corporate scrapheap.

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