NEW YORK (AP) — Two more men were charged Thursday in the sports betting scandal that prompted the NBA to ban former Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter for life.
NEW YORK — Two more men were charged Thursday in the sports betting scandal that prompted the NBA to ban former Toronto Raptors player Jontay Porter for life.
Current contact information could not immediately be found for Porter or any agent or other representative he may have. And win they did, with Mollah's bets on a March 20 game netting over $1.3 million, according to the complaint. It said Pham, the player and the unnamed defendant were each supposed to get about a quarter of those winnings, and McCormack a 4% cut, before a betting company got suspicious and blocked Mollah from collecting most of the money.His attorney, Jeffrey Chartier, said Thursday that “no case is a slam-dunk." He declined to comment on whether his client knows Porter.
It says he went on to tell the defendants that he planned to take himself out of the Jan. 26 game early, claiming injury.
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