11Jun

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...

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02Jun

Words Don’t Stop Bullets: Why Cricket Canada Needs Police Action

Violent extortion, threats, houses sprayed with bullets and alleged match-fixing at the World Cup of Cricket linked to sports gambling. Words don’t stop bullets. Bits of paper don’t stop gangsters from killing people. What Canadian cricket is facing is not a “sports crime”. It is not doping or cheating but an alleged, systemic campaign of criminal extortion committed by violent thugs. In April of this year, the journalists at my former Canadian television program the fifth estate (akin to 60 Minutes or Panorama in...

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02May

Sportradar, the ‘Nice Mafia’ Problem, & Another Dark Secret at the Heart of the Gambling Industry

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 -...

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16Mar

What Tim Donaghy’s Scandal Reveals About America

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. ...

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26Nov

Journalist Attacked on the Streets of Kuala Lumpur

Haresh Deol was assaulted by two masked men after investigating the corruption in Malaysian Football. It is difficult to overstate the corruption in Malaysia. Today, it got worse. My friend and colleague #Haresh Deol was attacked on the streets of Kuala Lumpur by two masked men. It was an assault on a superb journalist doing really good investigations. Keep strong, brother Haresh. https://twentytwo13.my/calls-mount-for-answers-after-brazen-assault-on-twentytwo13-editor-haresh-deol/

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10Nov

We are all the Turkish Football League Now: Why the Match-Fixing Tsunami Continues in Sports

Sports around the world are in danger: Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, NCAA, UFC and soccer/football in 33 countries. Here are the facts that no one else will tell you. “When you want to fix, go to the country where it is easiest.” It was the day after a major Champions League game. The final round of the old-formatted, group stages where most teams had nothing to play for. I was talking to one of the biggest Asian match-fixers. He told...

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23Oct

The NBA Match-Fixing Scandal

Organized crime mobsters, coaches, athletes, the NBA and the FBI. If you think it just one sport or league - you are in a dream world. This is the tip of the iceberg. Gambling addiction is rife among athletes. This is the big sports news that I have been hinting about for years. The day has finally, arrived when American sports stars and coaches, along with their alleged mobster chums, have been arrested for match-fixing. There is more - much more...

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25Sep

The Shohei Ohtani Case, Las Vegas, & the ‘Human Head’ Business

The connections between legal and illegal bookmakers - in a criminal sports gambling network featuring NFL, MLB athletes/coaches, the Mob and the royalty of Las Vegas betting bosses. Scott Sibella is Las Vegas royalty. The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MGM Grand has virtually no equals in the city of gambling. There might be a few withered ghosts of eccentric billionaires like Howard Hughes, Sheldon Adelson or Steve Wynn floating around the corporatized towers of “sin city” - scrubbing away germs...

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08Apr

The Mafia Capo, How to Catch a Killer & Red-Flagging the Leagues

MAFIO CAPO PRESENTATION    "And a lot of these basketball players would go to the same clubs...and we got our eye on one or two of the guys. And I'd say, "Listen, you are a smart guy. I'm your good friend. Let me tell you how you are going to make some money."  Michael Franzese, the former Mafia Capo for the Colombo Crime Family, is the keynote speaker for the second annual Sports Integrity presentation at the University of New...

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18Nov

The NBA Gamble

If you are a sports fan, you are probably slightly obsessed with the Tim Donaghy case. Donaghy was one of the highest ranked referees in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was also a gambling addict. For four years, he worked with illegal gamblers and bookmakers betting on his own games. The betting industry either never caught him or the few that did notice the strange odds movements, like the Gambino-connected bookmakers in New York, bet on his games for their own...

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