{"id":577,"date":"2007-03-31T17:09:12","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T22:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2007\/03\/31\/betonsports-founder-and-fugitive-arrested-in-the-domincan-republic\/"},"modified":"2008-10-20T15:23:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T21:23:56","slug":"betonsports-founder-and-fugitive-arrested-in-the-domincan-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/betonsports-founder-and-fugitive-arrested-in-the-domincan-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"BetOnSports founder and fugitive arrested in the Domincan Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"[Photo]\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27123%27%20height%3D%27134%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20123%20134%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27123%27%20height%3D%27134%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/resources\/images\/MK-AI705_KAPLAN_20070226182642.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"[Photo]\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"123\" height=\"134\" align=\"right\" \/>Gary Stephen Kaplan, the founder of BetOnSports PLC, was arrested on Wednesday in the Dominican Republic. He was sent from there to Puerto Rico to appear before a magistrate, and will soon be sent to St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan has been wanted by the U.S. on charges of fraud and a racketeering conspiracy. He was charged in St. Louis federal court last year for allegedly running a criminal enterprise that illegally took $3.5 billion in bets since 2001. Kaplan, 10 people, and 4 corporations were indicted, and co-owner of BetOnSports Norman Steinberg is still on the run. After one executive was arrested in July, the company announced it was stopping U.S. operations, which accounted for about 90% of its business.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the U.S. Congress passed a law which banned almost all forms of online gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Stephen Kaplan, the founder of BetOnSports PLC, was arrested on Wednesday in the Dominican Republic. He was sent from there to Puerto Rico to appear before a magistrate, and will soon be sent to St. Louis. Kaplan has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-9j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}