The ousted BetonSports boss' release from a Missouri jail has been hung up by a phone glitch.
David Carruthers, who was nabbed by the feds nearly a month ago as he waited in a Dallas airport to catch a connecting flight to Costa Rica, was set to make $1 million bail Monday and settle in a St. Louis condo with his wife while he awaits a trial.
But the authorities wouldn't let the Scottish-born executive out because he didn't have a dedicated telephone line that would allow them to set up a monitoring device to track his movements.
Carruthers got the phone Monday, but it came with services, such as call-waiting, that would interfere with the feds' attempts to follow is footsteps.
By yesterday, the telephone company had removed only half of the special services.
Carruthers, 48, is expected to make bail today.
The feds indicted him, several other individuals, and Costa Rica-based BetonSports last month for promoting illegal gambling in the U.S.
Carruthers, an outspoken critic of U.S. gambling laws, was fired by BetonSports a week after his arrest in a gamble it would improve negotiations with prosecutors.
But the bet hasn't paid off. BetonSports, whose stock has been halted in the U.K. since it was indicted, last week said it would shut down its U.S. operations for good.
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