Former All White Clayton Lewis has been discharged without conviction for his role in what’s become one of Australia’s biggest sports corruption scandals.<\/p>\n
The Kiwi footballer and a team mate, Kearyn Baccus, admitted they were paid AU$10,000 (NZ$11,200) each to deliberately get yellow-carded during an A-League match on December 9, 2023, when they were playing for Sydney club MacArthur FC.<\/p>\n
He was arrested for his role in the scheme last May.<\/p>\n
In July this year, Lewis pleaded guilty to a corruption charge.<\/p>\n
The court heard last week how the 28-year-old had a gambling addiction, with the defence arguing Lewis had already suffered significant punishment, having most likely lost any future footballing prospects, with Football Australia seeking a lifetime ban.<\/p>\n
Magistrate Michael Blair, who was overseeing the hearing, delayed handing down his sentence until this afternoon. <\/p>\n
Lewis and Baccus were each sentenced in a Sydney community court to two-year community release orders without conviction \u2013 meaning the pair must not commit any further offences if they do not want to face a more serious penalty.<\/p>\n
Lewis was also ordered to pay back the AU$10,000 (NZ$11,200) he received.<\/p>\n
Blair said while his offending was reckless, it was at the low end of the spectrum.<\/p>\n
The 28-year-old admitted to being paid $11,200 for referee-issued cautions for foul play in 2023. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n
The former All White made no comment to media as he left court.<\/p>\n
Police allege Lewis was yellow-carded under instruction from the team’s former captain Ulises Davila, who was acting as a point man a South American crime syndicate.<\/p>\n
Davila has yet to enter any pleas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former All White Clayton Lewis has been discharged without conviction for his role in what’s become one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2965,85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-40534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-all-whites","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-crime-and-justice","11":"tag-headlines","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}