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Inside Prosecutors' 5Dimes Deal for Offshore Online Sports Betting
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.
When she reached out last year to Barry Boss and Stephen Miller, the co-chairs of the white collar defense & investigations practice group at the law firm Cozen O'Connor, she was both understandably scared for her own safety and concerned that she might get caught up in the legal fallout from the U.S. investigation of 5Dimes. The Cozen lawyers say, at the same time, she hoped to preserve what her husband had built — an online sportsbook that had a solid reputation with bettors and didn't have the sort of payout problems that plague some offshore betting sites.
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