US EditionMan who helped recruit players into a sprawling NCAA basketball point-shaving scheme pleads guilty
Smith admitted recruiting players to underperform in over 29 NCAA games, involving 39 players and 17 teams, defrauding sportsbooks with millions in wagers, prosecutors said.
- Jalen Smith, of Charlotte, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to wire fraud and bribery charges for helping recruit players into an NCAA basketball point-shaving scheme.
- Smith used connections with players he trained to recruit them into fixing games in the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons by purposefully underperforming for cash payments.
- The scheme involved fixers who recruited players and placed bets against the players' teams, defrauding sportsbooks and other bettors.
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North Carolina man pleads guilty in point-shaving scheme that involved NC A&T State players
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP/WGHP) — One of the so-called fixers in a sprawling betting scheme that allegedly raked in millions of dollars off of big bets on rigged NCAA basketball games pleaded guilty Monday. Jalen Smith appeared in federal court in Philadelphia and pleaded guilty to wire fraud and bribery charges, becoming the first of 26 people charged [...]
Man who recruited players for NCAA basketball point-shaving scheme pleads guilty
One of the so-called fixers in a sprawling betting scheme that allegedly raked in millions of dollars off of big bets on rigged NCAA basketball games pleaded guilty Monday. Jalen Smith appeared in federal court in Philadelphia and pleaded guilty to wire fraud and bribery charges, becoming the first of 26 people charged in the scheme to formally do so. It came a week before the start of March Madness, in which bettors will wager billions legally …
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Fixer pleads guilty in NCAA basketball point-shaving scheme
One of the people accused of being a ringleader in a plot to affect outcomes in college basketball games pleaded guilty to charges Monday.
College basketball ‘fixer’ pleads guilty in massive NCAA, CBA bribery and point-shaving scheme
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! One of the 26 people charged in an alleged bribery and point-shaving scheme to fix NCAA Division I men’s basketball games and Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) games has pleaded guilty, United States Attorney David Metcalf announced. Jalen Smith, a 30-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina, entered a guilty plea before U.S. District Court Judge Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro on Monday in connection wi…
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