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Four men went to a New Jersey casino in March 2024, at the start of the men's NCAA Tournament. While many of the attention in the sports world was on a set of video games in Dayton, Ohio, that would decide which groups would get the final spots in the round of 64, the men were concentrated on a forgettable NBA game, the Toronto Raptors hosting the Sacramento Kings. They were ready to make what they thought were the surest bets of their lives. Mollah's bets all bet that Porter would not reach the points, rebounds and assist limits the casino set for him in that video game.
Putting that much money on a player few NBA fans even understood might seem dangerous, but Mollah and the other men were positive in the outcome: They had been talking straight with Porter for months. He had actually provided an assurance before the game that he would take himself out early and claim he was ill. This sequence of occasions, and other information of the plan, are based on legal filings made by the Department of Justice in 3 cases over the last year.
According to police officials, it was not the very first time Porter had actually faked a medical issue to get himself gotten rid of from a video game and depress his statistics, and they said he had been keeping the four guys conscious of his intents in a Telegram chat. When Porter told the four guys that he would come out early from a Jan. 26, 2024 game with an eye injury, Timothy McCormack bet $7,000 on a parlay that Porter would not strike his overalls for points, rebounds, assists and 3s. He won $40,250. A relative of one of the other guys won $85,000.
Two months later at the DraftKings Sportsbook in Atlantic City, according to court records, the males again wagered heavily on the under on Porter's props
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Big Parlays, Fake Injuries and Telegram Tips: the Betting Scandal in College And Pro Sports
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