Of course, there will be match fixing at the FIFA World Cup - Why wouldn’t there be? Sports gambling/betting, corruption, under-paid players, its all legal! Match-Fixing at the World Cup So what you want, we can deliver to you. After this match, I have a game in the Under-20 World Cup… So Under-20 World Cup first two games they will play, so after the third game, they will do for us because XXXX is our team (names...
Sportradar is facing massive pushback after two controversial reports on their business practices It’s big. It’s huge. If the short sellers’ reports by Muddywaters and Callisto are true, this is the end of Sportradar. There is no possible way for the company to survive. Note, please, the - if these reports are true - part. However, the vultures are circling. America being America, class action lawyers have set up shop trawling for customers. Three different sets of government regulators are - purportedly -...
Sportradar, the darling of the sports integrity industry, has been been hit hard by two investigation reports on their alleged links to criminal bookmakers and a superb documentary on organized crime in international cricket. What a day this has been! The journalistic equivalent of you-wait-for-hours and then-5 buses-all-come-along-at-once. There are at least five major stories that have broken today. For now, here are some points on two of those stories - more later on the other scandals. The Dark Secret at...
I was invited to give a keynote speech in Melbourne, Australia for their Sporting Integrity Conference hosted by the Victoria Police. It was at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Club. I spoke about the widespread corruption, match-fixing and the toxic nature of the "experts" paid by Qatar diverting much of the sports integrity industry. I will write later about those themes and why such a speech is impossible in Canada - because our fabulous athletes are constantly betrayed by our politicians...
Two weeks ago, a genius died. Dr. Henry C. Lee, one of the first pioneers of DNA in detective work, and the investigator they call the "Sherlock Holmes of our times" went off to the better world. Dr. Lee was the founder of my College at the University of New Haven. He was still working hard at age 86-years-old. We had several, long, intense conversations about various cases. At another time, I will write about his effect on me and...
New Evidence in Jeffrey Epstein's Death: Suspicious Cash Payments and Missing Testimony Raise Questions Jeffrey Epstein’s prison guard was accepting payments in cash. The official who was a short distance away from his cell the night he died - received thousands of dollars in cash. The guard’s bank deemed them “suspicious” and notified the FBI. Again, like so many other things around the Epstein death an almost unbelievable perplexing lack of investigation - the guard was never asked to explain under oath...
An exclusive interview with Tim Donaghy, the NBA referee who gambled with Mafia-connected bookmakers - Sports betting, NBA tanking, US Corruption It is the $64 million dollar question. The audience, mostly sleepy tennis executives and sales people on an early Sunday morning in the near-empty conference center, leaned forward, when I asked it to Tim Donaghy. Tim Donaghy, the former National Basketball Association (NBA) referee who had worked with gamblers connected with organized crime, and I were on stage together this weekend. ...
Could the mysterious death of a billionaire have stopped Adolf Hitler, the Holocaust, and the Second World War? It is the ultimate, closed-room mystery. 94-years-ago, on March 12th of 1932, one of the richest men in the world, Ivar Kreuger, went into his Paris apartment. He never came out again. At first, his death was declared a suicide and the authorities quickly burnt his body - despite orders to the contrary. Then thirty-three years later Ivar Kreuger's brother, mistress, and many others,...
American sports leagues are dancing with the devil. Their commercial interests with bookmakers are clear conflict of interest. This blog is a podcast episode I did recently with The Protectors Podcast. Enjoy! But do note - the transcript is loosey-goosey! Today joins us to break down the wave of recent standards. From college athletes running books with the Mob to NBA coaches and players allegedly providing insider information and even major league pitchers accused of manipulating outcomes pitch...
As the millions of pages of documents flow out of the US Department of Justice (DoJ) I, and my students, have gone through many of them looking for answers to one of the key mysteries in the Epstein scandal: Was he killed or was it, as the government claims, a suicide? The documents below and more about the investigation at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1kU-e0YXGLhM-V_3vRa6PQ Jeffrey Epstein: Was his death a murder or suicide? The Flip On July 29, 2019, Jeffrey...
