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SECRET SITE BACKS CARRUTHERS
Vegas_Illuminati
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Fri, Aug 4 2006 12:28 PM
SECRET SITE BACKS CARRUTHERS
By JANET WHITMAN for
The NY Post
August 3, 2006 -- Someone's making a long-shot bet that a Web site will help free David Carruthers, the former BetonSports boss locked up in a St. Louis jail for promoting illegal gambling.
It's unclear who's behind the new site, freedavidcarruthers.com, which appears to have gone up soon after Carruthers was fired by BetonSports PLC, the offshore sports-betting operation indicted about two weeks ago by U.S. authorities in St. Louis, Missouri.
BetonSports dumped the Scottish-born CEO last Tuesday, a little more than a week after FBI agents nabbed him at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport as he waited with his wife to board a plane to Costa Rica.
The feds have charged Carruthers, BetonSports, and others with racketeering, conspiracy and fraud. Authorities also say the company failed to pay U.S. excise taxes on more than $3.3 billion in wagers taken from U.S. bettors.
BetonSports is betting Carruthers' ouster will help turn its luck in negotiating with prosecutors to reopen its popular sports-betting Web site, which has been shuttered by a restraining order.
Carruthers, who is expected to make a $1 million bail this week, has been the outspoken critic of U.S. gambling laws.
Freedavidcarruthers.com claims that's why he was arrested.
"On the surface, the indictment against him relates to his being a board member and CEO of BetonSports," the site says. "But any observer of the situation can see that his real crime is to dare to demonstrate the futility and hypocrisy of the current U.S. Administration and its attitude to online gambling 'prohibition.' "
Christopher Costigan, president of the online-gambling news Web site Gambling911.com, said he doesn't know who's behind the effort.
He came across a link to the site this week as he was reading a Wikipedia entry about Carruthers.
The site, topped with a picture of a beaming Carruthers just before BetonSports when public in London in July 2004, is hosted by EV1Servers, a Houston Web hosting provider.
The Post received no response to an email sent to
freedavid@freedavidcarruthers.com
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Carruthers will probably be fitted with a monitoring device and forced to stay in the St. Louis area while he awaits trial.
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