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BetOnSports, one of the largest online betting and gambling companies in the world, will ignore a federal criminal prosecution and civil case aimed at shutting its billion-dollar U.S. operation, a federal prosecutor said in court Monday.
BetOnSports lawyers failed to show up Monday morning for arraignment of the company on criminal charges that include mail fraud, wire fraud and racketeering.
They also did not attend a civil hearing in the afternoon. There, federal prosecutors asked a judge to make permanent a temporary order that bans the company from doing business with U.S. customers and seeks the forfeiture of more than $4.5 billion and other property.