BetED indictee pleads guilty to gambling charge
Darren Wright admits to conducting an illegal gambling business but pleads not guilty to money laundering charges.
BetED indictee and former executive Darren Wright has pleaded guilty to conducting an illegal gambling business after being arraigned in a Maryland court this week.
Wright, who was indicted in May 2011 following the “Blue Monday” domain seizures, has pleaded not guilty to separate money laundering charges. His fellow indictee, BetED software programmer Dave Parchomchuk, was sentenced to two years probation last month after pleading guilty to conducting an illegal internet gambling business.
According to sports betting blog David Purdum Sports, Wright’s sentence is yet to be signed and released by Judge Catherine C Blake.
BetED closed more than a year ago, shutting its Costa Rica office after bank account seizures left it unable to pay players. It had used US government-run undercover payment processor Linwood Payment Systems for a number of gambling transactions in the months leading up to the indictment of Wright and Parchomchuk.