Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn notified former NBA player Terry Rozier this week that they expect to file a superseding indictment against him in the sweeping, multi-year gambling scandal that has ensnared the league. <\/p>\n
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The Justice Department is expected to file new charges of sports bribery and honest services wire fraud against the former Miami Heat guard by mid-May, his attorney Jim Trusty told NBC News. <\/p>\n
Trusty said the government told him about the development two hours before a hearing at which he argued to dismiss the original indictment, which accused Rozier of helping gamblers place bets on his own performance. <\/p>\n
According to that initial indictment, filed last year, federal prosecutors alleged that Rozier faked a foot injury during a March 2023 game while playing for the Charlotte Hornets. Before the game, Rozier allegedly tipped off a group of bettors, who wagered on his plan to leave early \u2014 generating tens of thousands of dollars in profits.<\/p>\n
Rozier pleaded not guilty last year to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a sign that their wire fraud theory in the original indictment is a real stretch,\u201d Trusty told NBC News. \u201cBy superseding, they\u2019re throwing more stuff against the wall and hoping something sticks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still, the Justice Department has argued it has evidence that Rozier solicited and accepted a bribe for his alleged conduct in the scheme.<\/p>\n
The prospect of additional charges is one of the latest developments in two massive illegal gambling cases brought by prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York last year: one involving the rigging of Mafia-backed poker games and another on the use of nonpublic information to place bets on several NBA games. Together, the two alleged criminal operations generated over $10 million in ill-gotten gains, according to the Justice Department. <\/p>\n
More than 30 people, including members and associates of four major Mafia crime families, Rozier, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and ex-NBA player Damon Jones, have been implicated in the gambling scandal.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Jones became the first defendant to plead guilty in the investigation. Appearing before a federal judge in Brooklyn, he admitted to feeding inside information to sports gamblers, helping organize fixed poker games, and serving as a \u201cface card\u201d to attract high-end bettors. Jones pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud conspiracy across the two separate cases and is scheduled to be sentenced in January.<\/p>\n
Another key figure, Marves Fairley, intends to plead guilty to charges stemming from the sports betting case, according to court documents filed this week. <\/p>\n
Prosecutors alleged that Fairley used non-public information about several NBA games, including the one involving Rozier, to place fraudulent wagers. <\/p>\n
Fairley also intends to plead guilty in a separate NCAA point-shaving case in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania over allegedly recruiting players who would accept bribes to influence games, the documents showed. <\/p>\n
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn and Pennsylvania have asked that Fairley\u2019s two cases be consolidated so that he can enter his expected guilty pleas and be sentenced in New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn notified former NBA player Terry Rozier this week that they expect to file a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-643778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}