US Edition20 charged in connection with rigging college basketball games as part of FBI investigation
Twenty defendants, including college players and gamblers, are charged in a multimillion-dollar scheme to fix NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games via point-shaving, prosecutors say.
- On Thursday, federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania unsealed court papers charging dozens of defendants in a scheme to fix NCAA college basketball and Chinese professional league games.
- Beginning around September 2022, the scheme targeted the Chinese Basketball Association before recruiting college players with bribes of $10,000 to $30,000, prosecutors say.
- The indictment details involvement across more than 17 Division I teams, describing 39 players and bettors wagering millions on at least 29 games, with Fifteen defendants active in 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons.
- The indictments allege the defendants committed bribery and wire‑fraud offenses, citing large wagers at Rivers Casino in Philadelphia and a $200,000 cash payment to Antonio Blakeney.
- The indictment arrives amid a wider FBI probe into sports gambling, with officials calling it the latest scandal linked to Terry Rozier's Oct. 23 arrest and gamblers Shane Hennen and Marves Fairley.
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20 Charged With Rigging College Basketball Games
A sweeping college basketball betting scandal is unfolding in federal court, with prosecutors alleging that dozens of players helped rig games for cash. A newly unsealed indictment in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania charges 20 men in what authorities describe as a wide-ranging point-shaving operation that touched more than 17...
Former DePaul players and former Bulls player Antonio Blakeney charged in scheme to rig games
PHILADELPHIA — A sprawling betting scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games ensnared 26 people, including three former DePaul players and former Bulls player Antonio Blakeney, federal prosecutors said Thursday.The scheme generally revolved around fixers recruiting players with the promise of a big payment in exchange for purposefully underperforming during a game, prosecutors said. The fixers would then place big bets against …
College players among those charged in point-shaving scheme
More than a dozen current and former college basketball players have been charged in connection with a point-shaving scheme involving 17 NCAA Division I teams. A federal indictment unsealed Thursday in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania alleged that the scheme involved 39 college basketball players, 15 of whom were charged. ESPN is reporting that those charged played in the 2023-24 and/or the 2024-25 seasons, and CBS Sports said a few have pl…
Ohio University, Kent State games mentioned in alleged basketball point-shaving scheme
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- A college basketball point-shaving scheme involved players allegedly rigging games against Ohio University and Kent State, according to a federal indictment. A federal indictment unsealed on Thursday lists a game on Feb. 27, 2024, at the M.A.C. Center in Kent between Kent State and Buffalo. Kent State was favored by 8.5 [...]
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