A Costa Rica-based online sportsbook that illegally took bets from American customers for years has reached a nonprosecution agreement with the U.S. Justice Department, as the company attempts to move into the legal sports-betting market in the U.S.
Gambling site 5Dimes and federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced a deal Wednesday that clears the company’s owner, Laura Varela, of wrongdoing and resolves the company’s legal troubles over its more than two decades of operating offshore and accepting…
