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Did federal sentencing of CEO of BetonSports have an over/under?

By Douglas A. Berman

This new Wired story, which is headlined "Online Gambling Boss Gets 33-Month Sentence," accounts for the cheeky title of this post.  Here are the details of a sentencing against the backdrop of an interesting public policy debate: The chief executive of an overseas, online gambling operation was sentenced by a U.S. judge to 33 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to racketeering, the government announced Friday. David Carruthers, 52, the former executive of BetonSports, was handed the sentence Friday in a St. Louis federal courtroom. The authorities said the British man?s online operations were based in Costa Rica, and violated anti-online gaming laws in the United States. Carruthers? plea agreement (.pdf) requires him to cooperate in the government?s investigation into the site, which is one of dozens the United States is targeting following the adoption of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 09, 2010 (boomark / email).