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The FBI is investigating and charging college basketball coaches for bribing players
The Department of Justice is soon to announce more about a corruption investigation into college basketball.
A bombshell in college basketball has caught up to as many as 10 college basketball assistant coaches and others involved in the sport in a corruption case related to bribery.
What’s the story here?
Typically a scandal in college basketball involves one thing: paying players above full scholarship and full cost of attendance. That’s what happened here, but with a twist. It doesn’t appear that this is a garden-variety NCAA scandal, where coaches might act with boosters to pay players. This is federal:
Entire article: https://www.sbnation.com/college-ba...sketball-fbi-corruption-investigation-bribery
N.C.A.A. Coaches and Adidas Executive Face Bribery Charges
Ten people involved at the highest levels of college basketball, including four assistant coaches and a senior executive at Adidas, are facing federal bribery, fraud and other corruption charges, prosecutors in Manhattan announced on Tuesday.
Another article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/sports/ncaa-adidas-bribery.html
NCAA basketball coaches among 10 charged with fraud, corruption
Four assistant basketball coaches from Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State and Southern California were among those arrested on federal corruption charges Tuesday after they were caught taking thousands of dollars in bribes to steer NBA-destined college stars toward certain sports agents and financial advisers, authorities said.
The coaches named in court documents are Auburn's Chuck Person, Oklahoma State's Lamont Evans, Arizona's Emanuel "Book" Richardson and USC's Tony Bland. It was not immediately clear who would represent them at initial court appearances.
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Other people named in the documents include:
The Department of Justice is soon to announce more about a corruption investigation into college basketball.
A bombshell in college basketball has caught up to as many as 10 college basketball assistant coaches and others involved in the sport in a corruption case related to bribery.
What’s the story here?
Typically a scandal in college basketball involves one thing: paying players above full scholarship and full cost of attendance. That’s what happened here, but with a twist. It doesn’t appear that this is a garden-variety NCAA scandal, where coaches might act with boosters to pay players. This is federal:
Entire article: https://www.sbnation.com/college-ba...sketball-fbi-corruption-investigation-bribery
N.C.A.A. Coaches and Adidas Executive Face Bribery Charges
Ten people involved at the highest levels of college basketball, including four assistant coaches and a senior executive at Adidas, are facing federal bribery, fraud and other corruption charges, prosecutors in Manhattan announced on Tuesday.
Another article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/26/sports/ncaa-adidas-bribery.html
NCAA basketball coaches among 10 charged with fraud, corruption
Four assistant basketball coaches from Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State and Southern California were among those arrested on federal corruption charges Tuesday after they were caught taking thousands of dollars in bribes to steer NBA-destined college stars toward certain sports agents and financial advisers, authorities said.
The coaches named in court documents are Auburn's Chuck Person, Oklahoma State's Lamont Evans, Arizona's Emanuel "Book" Richardson and USC's Tony Bland. It was not immediately clear who would represent them at initial court appearances.
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Other people named in the documents include:
- James Gatto, director of global sports marketing at Adidas;
- Merl Code, who recently left Nike for Adidas;
- Christian Dawkins, an NBA agent who was fired in May from ASM Sports for charging approximately $42,000 in Uber charges on a player's credit card;
- Jonathan Brad Augustine, president of The League Initiative and program director of the Adidas-sponsored 1 Family AAU program;
- Munish Sood, a financial adviser;
- Rashan Michel, a former NBA official who founded Thompson Bespoke Clothing, a custom clothier for athletes.
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