FBI – Declan Hill – Investigative Journalist & Academic

24JulJuly 24, 2026

The Odd Odds Movements: Three Games in the World Cup had massive shifts in gambling odds

While the world focused on 'Red card gate', Donald Trump, Gianni Infantino and the scandal around Folarin Balogun, there were three games at the FIFA World Cup tournament that had strange, massive odds movements. Funny, you should mention that…. The New York Times’ Jacob Whitehead has just come out with an excellent article about betting irregularities at the FIFA World Cup. It came out the very day that I was posting an article on the same subject. The team at the...

11JunJune 11, 2026

The Seven Secrets of Why There Will be Match-Fixers at the World Cup: Part 3 – No one is stopping them

The match-fixers were at the last men's FIFA World Cup in America. They will be back. There are more teams. The gambling market is larger. And no one is stopping them. Match-fixers approached players on the Swedish team before the 3rd place match in the 1994 FIFA World Cup Finals It was - theoretically - the second most important game at the tournament: The 3rd place match on July 16,1994. The game was between Sweden and Bulgaria. It was a...

20FebFebruary 20, 2026

Jeffrey Epstein’s Death: What The Documents Tell Us…

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...

21JanJanuary 21, 2026

How the NCAA Match-Fixing Actually Worked…

Exclusive interviews with match-fixers to show how corruption linked to the international gambling market is an existential crisis to US sports. One of the alleged participants in the NCAA match-fixing ring. To begin with the obvious and necessary: people lie. They lie for all kinds of reasons. Sometimes they lie for profit, sometimes they lie because they like lying, and sometimes they lie because they are on the wrong side of an interrogation table...

03NovNovember 3, 2025

Why has the Sports Integrity Industry Failed?

The FBI investigation of the NBA, and alleged Mafia involvement raises a massive question - why has the sports integrity industry failed so badly that few are surprised by this scandal? The New Yorker, asked me to contribute my quotes to their article “The Sports Betting Disaster”… here is my longer response. The Match-Fixer The match-fixer was completely at his ease. I thought he was going to be nervous. His gang travels around the world corrupting major sports events, so I...

27OctOctober 27, 2025

The NBA Match-Fixing Scandal II – The Unspoken Secret of the Gambling Integrity World

There is a secret that no one dares speak about in the sports betting integrity world. It lies at the heart of the current FBI investigation of the NBA. Well they would say that wouldn’t they? This is my response to many of the commentators who have been claiming the FBI arrests are a triumph of the legal betting market and its ability to show corruption in the bets. Some of the people making these comments are simply shills for the...

06JunJune 6, 2024

Okay, So Where’s the Mob?

Jontay Porter the ex-NBA player and his gambling syndicate buddy arrested at JFK Airport. Threats, racketeering and "doing a special… or you beat me up." There has to be a mob connection somewhere in this story. That’s my take on the Brooklyn-based gambler, Long Phi “Bruce” Pham, being arrested by US authorities at JFK Airport in connection with the Jontay Porter scandal. To review. Porter was a good, third-string player in the best basketball league in the world. He made about $1 million...

26NovNovember 26, 2018

The Death of ICSS’s Credibility

Its over. It cannot possibly stagger on with any belief. The credibility of that awful walking, talking oxymoron of the Qatari-funded agency for ‘sports integrity’ - the International Center for Sports Security (ICSS) is dead. Yesterday, in an extraordinary Football Leaks investigation the credibility of the ICSS was not just killed. They blew it up, collected the ashes, burnt them and scattered them to the winds… (That's enough far-fetched poetic analogies! Ed). The organization was set up to ‘protect sports integrity’ a...

14JunJune 14, 2018

Why the Match Fixers are at the World Cup in Russia

The hot tub of World Cup match-fixing This article first appeared on playthegame.org Potential corruption and match-fixing at the World Cup is aided by corrupt national football association officials, . FIFA’s ‘often odd’ attitude towards these officials protects the fixers at the World Cup. Uncle Frankie, the match-fixer, sat in the hot tub with players from the Swedish World Cup team. It was in a Los Angeles Hotel before their third-place match with Bulgaria at the 1994 World Cup. Uncle...

07NovNovember 7, 2017

It’s a Mob Trial: FIFA in America

New York - Here at the Brooklyn Federal Court House, one of the most significant legal trials in sports history is underway. Two-and-a-half years ago, Swiss Police kicked open the doors of the Baur-au-Lac Hotel in Zurich and began arresting high-ranking FIFA officials. After long stretches of legal wrangling - during which twenty-four officials pled guilty to a wide-range of crimes from fraud to money laundering to racketeering - today, the case for the officials who did not plead...