Online gambling entrepreneur pleaded guilty to a misdemeanour
The publication Forbes.com has published more detail on the US government’s abandonment of serious felony charges against online gambling entrepreneur and Bodog founder Calvin Ayre (56), reporting that the settlement included a guilty plea to the far less serious misdemeanour offence of being an accessory after the fact in the transmission of gambling information.
Forbes reports that Ayre entered his plea before a Baltimore federal court Friday in a phone call from his legal representative’s offices in Vancouver, ending five years of living under the threat of US prosecution.
After accepting the plea, federal judge Catherine Blake confirmed that the felony charges had been dropped and sentenced Ayre to one year of unsupervised probation. She also approved the unrestricted release from government forfeiture of the Bodog brand on payment of $100,000.
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