"...In February 2012, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maryland indicted Bodog, Ayre and four other people (Wright not among them) for allegedly conducting an illegal gambling business between 2005 and 2012. They were also indicted for moving funds from overseas to pay winnings to gamblers in the United States".

Bitcoin’s “creator” races to patent technology with gambling tycoon
By Byron Kaye and Jeremy Wagstaff
Filed March 2, 2017
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/bitcoin-wright-patents/