{"id":1834,"date":"2010-01-08T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2010-01-08T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T20:33:00","slug":"hard-time-for-carruthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/hard-time-for-carruthers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard time for Carruthers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1835\" title=\"Carruthers\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Carruthers.jpg\" alt=\"Carruthers\" width=\"225\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Carruthers.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Carruthers-150x117.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Former <strong>Betonsports PLC<\/strong> CEO <strong>David Carruthers<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-01-08\/betonsports-ex-ceo-carruthers-gets-33-month-sentence-update1-.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">drew 33 months in the slammer<\/a> for racketeering. The law under which he was convicted, <strong>Slick Billy Frist<\/strong>&#8216;s odious <strong>UIGEA<\/strong>, is ludicrous and overdue for repeal, but the recklessnss of Carruthers and company founder <strong>Gary Kaplan<\/strong> boggles the mind. In particular, <em>S&amp;G<\/em> is still wondering &#8212; 3.5 years after the fact &#8212; just what the hell Carruthers was thinking when he elected to change planes at <strong>Dallas-Fort Worth<\/strong> (<em>en route<\/em> to <strong>Costa Rica<\/strong>) despite being aware that his company was beneath a Justice Department microscope. He says he was under the impression he was &#8220;outside&#8221; the laws of the U.S. No, Mr. Carruthers, you just thought you were <em>above<\/em> them. But don&#8217;t worry: The penal system offers myriad opportunities for study, meditation, learning a second career, making new friends and getting lots of tattoos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Betonsports PLC CEO David Carruthers drew 33 months in the slammer for racketeering. The law under which he was convicted, Slick Billy Frist&#8216;s odious UIGEA, is ludicrous and overdue for repeal, but the recklessnss of Carruthers and company founder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/hard-time-for-carruthers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,37,25,114],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1836,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}