The two indictments being unsealed today both have to do with a fraud ring — one involves sports betting and the other involves illegal gambling.
The first involves six people who engaged in “one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Nocella Jr. said, including Rozier.
He referenced Jontay Porter, who was arrested earlier this year for his alleged role in the scheme.
“Since online sports betting became widely legalized in the United States, this scheme is an insider sports betting conspiracy that exploited confidential information about National Basketball Association athletes and teams,” he added.
The alleged scheme involved planning around when players would be sitting out future games or when they planned to pull themselves out of games due to injury.
The group allegedly relied on NBA insiders to place thousands of dollars in sports bets through an online sports book and in casinos.
“Most of these bets succeeded, and the intended losses were in the millions of dollars,” Nocella said. “The defendants then laundered their illegal winnings in various ways, peer-to-peer platforms, bank wires and simple cash exchanges.”
Defendants are facing charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
