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Inside Prosecutors' 5Dimes Deal for Offshore Online Sports Betting

By Ross Todd
November 01, 2020

In the world of offshore, online sports gambling, it's hard to imagine a more sympathetic client than Laura Varela.

Varela's husband William Sean Creighton had run the sports 5Dimes Internet sports betting website from Costa Rica where the two met and married — and where gambling on sports is legal. Although the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and prosecutors in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania had been investigating the site's U.S. reach since 2016, Varela hadn't been privy to its operations prior to her husband's September 2018 kidnapping. Tragically for her and the couple's two young children, Creighton's remains were found in an unmarked grave in Quepos, Costa Rica about a year later and officials ruled his death a homicide.

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