Federal prosecutors indict 26 people for allegedly fixing college basketball games in widespread conspiracy

Federal prosecutors successful Pennsylvania announced Thursday that astatine slightest 26 radical were indicted successful an alleged "transactional transgression scheme" to hole NCAA Division 1 men's hoops games and nonrecreational Chinese Basketball Association games. 

The announcement follows the national government’s crackdown connected illicit sports gambling and point-shaving schemes that engulfed the NBA successful October.  

United States lawyer for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, David Metcalf, announced the indictment astatine a property league connected Thursday wherever helium said that the alleged strategy took spot crossed a 3 twelvemonth span and progressive 17 NCAA Division 1 men's programs and dozens of assemblage athletes and fixed games. 

"When criminals pollute the purity of sports by manipulating competition, it doesn't conscionable imperil the integrity of sports betting markets and imperils the integrity of athletics itself and everything that sports correspond to us, you know, hard work, determination and fairness," Metcalf said. 

"We allege an extended planetary transgression conspiracy of NCAA players, alumni and nonrecreational bettors who fixed games crossed the state and poisoned the American tone of contention for monetary gain." 

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