March 16, 2022
Federal prosecutors in New York on Tuesday opposed a new trial bid by Christian Dawkins, an aspiring sports business manager convicted in the NCAA basketball corruption crackdown, sought after one of the FBI agents in the case pled guilty to gambling with $13,500 in government funds during the investigation.
February 28, 2022
An aspiring sports business manager convicted in an NCAA basketball bribery crackdown is seeking a new trial after an undercover FBI agent pled guilty last week to taking $13,500 in government funds to gamble at a Las Vegas casino during a sting operation in the college hoops investigation.
July 30, 2021
A federal judge in Manhattan has rejected a request by prosecutors to set a prison date for an aspiring basketball business manager and a former Adidas hoops consultant convicted in the college hoops corruption crackdown as their previous sentences in a related case are on hold while they seek U.S. Supreme Court review.
October 22, 2020
A Second Circuit panel pressed the government Thursday over whether a trial judge improperly told jurors who convicted an aspiring basketball agent of conspiring to bribe NCAA coaches they could infer that his testimony about allegedly false statements to an undercover FBI agent was evidence of his guilt.
February 27, 2020
A sports agent runner convicted in the two trials stemming from New York prosecutors' NCAA college basketball corruption probe will not be getting his two iPhones seized by the FBI back anytime soon after a federal judge rejected his request for them to be returned.
February 06, 2020
A former financial adviser charged with a $2.35 million fraud and whose cooperation with federal authorities launched the NCAA college basketball corruption probe on Thursday received a sentence of time served, with a New York federal judge noting his "unusual" cooperation.
December 19, 2019
With former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick settling his collusion grievance against the league alleging he was shut out for protesting during the national anthem and federal prosecutors obtaining more criminal convictions in their probe into the dark underbelly of college basketball, 2019 was another big year for sports legal cases.
October 04, 2019
A Manhattan federal judge hit former Adidas consultant Merl Code with three months in prison Friday for conspiring to bribe NCAA basketball coaches as the Manhattan U.S. attorney's 2017 crackdown on the "dark underbelly" of college hoops wound toward an end.
October 03, 2019
A Manhattan federal judge hit record label manager Christian Dawkins with a year and a day in prison Thursday for bribing NCAA basketball coaches while trying to launch a previous career as a sports agent, finding that the 26-year-old lied on the witness stand.
September 20, 2019
As convicted NCAA bribery conspirator Christian Dawkins fought for a more lenient sentence in Manhattan federal court Friday, Cleveland State University told Law360 that his father, Lou, was fired from his job as an assistant basketball coach in July for soliciting $25,000 from a student-athlete.