An abrupt change this week in the plea agreement between the US authorities and former BetonSports CEO, David Carruthers, has a lot of people in the government and the online casino gambling industry a bit confused. Carruthers has had this plea arrangement in place since April and he would be walking away a free man in just days had he stuck to the plea arrangement. Carruthers is among the handful of executives and BetonSports employees that are facing some very hefty charges in the US for their involvement in illegal online casino gambling and betting activities in the US market. Carruthers accepted the plea deal and a great deal of his charges were dropped by the government in exchange for his help and his guilty plea.

Interesting enough, perhaps his conscience struck him because he withdrew the guilty plea this week even though he was to go up for sentencing on Friday. There was every expectation that the judge would accept Carruther’ guilty plea and time served under house arrest as sufficient to fulfill the three year sentence he accepted as a part of the plea agreement. But as a part of the agreement Carruthers was going to have to testify in court against Gary Kaplan and others that are still facing trials for their interaction in the former online casino betting company.

There has been no indication of why Carruthers chose to withdraw his guilty plea consider he could have been off house arrest in just days. The government prosecutors accepted his change to a not-guilty plea and this means that the case is back to square one and Carruthers is once again facing as many as 20 years in prison for his actions in the US online casino gambling and betting industry.