After several exchange of motions, objections and evidence hearings in the illegal sports betting case centered on Wei Seng “Paul” Phua, his defense attorneys in Las Vegas are now trying to get the FBI ruse case thrown out.

Attorneys David Chesnoff and Thomas Goldstein also asked U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon to end pre-trial GPS monitoring and let their client Paul Phua to travel abroad, in  time for his 51st birthday.

“He is not a flight risk and has had the courage to remain and fight for his liberty,” attorneys Chesnoff and Goldstein said in an email Tuesday.

The request came a week after U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon ruled that federal prosecutors couldn’t use evidence obtained in Phua’s Las Vegas Strip suite and that the FBI had violated Phua’s privacy rights in pulling off their investigative tricks.