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By PETE YOST
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERWASHINGTON — The government dismantled a $2.5 billion offshore Internet gambling operation, the Justice Department said Wednesday, charging two fugitives and their companies with laundering gambling proceeds from Internet casino games and sporting events.
A newly unsealed 12-count indictment filed April 7 accuses William Scott and Jessica Davis of illegally enticing gamblers to send funds from the United States to the Caribbean island of Antigua for wagers over the past eight years.
Gamblers placed the bets by toll-free telephone numbers and through Internet sites run by WorldWide Telesports Inc.
The indictment alleges the defendants violated the Wire and Travel Acts and engaged in a money laundering conspiracy.
Scott is charged with failing to report foreign bank accounts to the Internal Revenue Service.
The indictment says Scott used a shell company called Soulbury Limited to hide personal profits. The U.S. government obtained the assistance of the government of the independent state of Guernsey off the coast of France to locate $7 million in gambling proceeds, the department said.
The indictment says the defendants obtained $2.5 billion in unlawful proceeds from telephone and internet gambling. The government is seeking $250 million through forfeiture in hopes it can collect the fees kept by the defendants.
Scott and Davis were charged in a 1998 criminal complaint in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, stemming from an FBI investigation into alleged wire act violations for operating WorldWide Telesports.
US affiliate website prices just halved in value with that news …
:notify:Are they affiliates? Sounded to me like they are the owners of WWTS.
WWTS is owned by Betcorp an Australian listed public company with their registered office here in Melbourne. Jessica is one of the people I have been dealing with in the past although it was Jessica Davis-Dyett but assume this is the same person. In her emails her signature said, “COO, Tasman Gaming Inc.” which is probably just another entity owned by Betcorp but that is just a guess. Looks like they might have gone after the officers of the company.
Interest nonetheless.
BigDaddy wrote:A newly unsealed 12-count indictment filed April 7 accuses William Scott and Jessica Davis of illegally enticing gamblers to send funds from the United States to the Caribbean island of Antigua for wagers over the past eight years.Gamblers placed the bets by toll-free telephone numbers and through Internet sites run by WorldWide Telesports Inc.
…How does that sound different from an affiliate website ?
:nervous:I know that will NOT be their scale of involvement but given the brief description of the charges …
:notify:I believe the difference is that they are a sportsbook that is taking bets. As affiliates, we aren’t “enticing gamblers to send funds” to us.
Why would they go after some sportsbook execs and leave the others alone? Calvin Ayers seems to come and go as he pleases in the US.
Maybe it has to do with citizenship.
Calvin in Canadian. They are going after these folks because they are U.S. citizens. My estimation is that the only trouble they are really going to get into is anything involving tax evasion (think Al Capone, though he was really doing illegal things).
Regarding the tax evation thing… this is how the government attacks people and leaves them defenseless:
1. Dont declare income it becomes tax evation.
2. Declare income and it becomes money laundering.
You cant win.
