SPORTINGBET EXEC'S RELEASE (update) - Real Casinos Discussion Forums: "Hopes that Louisiana warrant will be quashed on September 28, but what about the other 49?
With ex-Sportingbet chairman (he resigned Thursday) Peter Dicks safely on a 'plane out of America on Friday, details on his surprise release continued to come to light.
Dicks was arrested September 6 as he arrived on US soil to attend board meetings at a major New York company. Apparently a Louisiana warrant about which neither he nor Sportingbet knew was used to deprive him of his liberty for 'gambling on computers' unspecified offences in a small parish in a state that Dicks has not visited in 20 years. After two nights in detention, reason prevailed at a bail hearing and he was released on a relatively low bail with a requirement to remain in New York, surrendering his passport.
A hearing to rule on an application to extradite the British executive to Louisiana was set for last Thursday after he gave notice that he would be vigorously opposing any such transfer.
However, Dicks's U.S. legal team headed by Barry Slotnick were clearly not letting the grass grow under its feet, approaching the New York governor's office on Wednesday with a formal request that Governor George Pataki withdraw a warrant that he had signed allowing Dicks' extradition to Louisiana.
Slotnick has subsequently revealed that he and h"
With ex-Sportingbet chairman (he resigned Thursday) Peter Dicks safely on a 'plane out of America on Friday, details on his surprise release continued to come to light.
Dicks was arrested September 6 as he arrived on US soil to attend board meetings at a major New York company. Apparently a Louisiana warrant about which neither he nor Sportingbet knew was used to deprive him of his liberty for 'gambling on computers' unspecified offences in a small parish in a state that Dicks has not visited in 20 years. After two nights in detention, reason prevailed at a bail hearing and he was released on a relatively low bail with a requirement to remain in New York, surrendering his passport.
A hearing to rule on an application to extradite the British executive to Louisiana was set for last Thursday after he gave notice that he would be vigorously opposing any such transfer.
However, Dicks's U.S. legal team headed by Barry Slotnick were clearly not letting the grass grow under its feet, approaching the New York governor's office on Wednesday with a formal request that Governor George Pataki withdraw a warrant that he had signed allowing Dicks' extradition to Louisiana.
Slotnick has subsequently revealed that he and h"
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