May 06, 2019
A New York federal jury deliberating charges against two men that they bribed assistant college basketball coaches on Monday asked the court whether a university can be defrauded if it was "willfully ignorant" of alleged illicit payments, a question that cuts to the heart of the government's NCAA corruption theory.
May 03, 2019
Prosecutors told a New York jury Friday that a former agent runner accused of bribing NCAA college basketball coaches lied on the stand when he testified he had created a fake college basketball player to fool an investor — who was actually an undercover FBI agent — in an attempt to explain away a secretly recorded meeting.
May 02, 2019
A former sports agent runner convicted in last year's NCAA basketball corruption case told a new jury Thursday he still believes he did nothing wrong in arranging payments to college players after deciding to testify in the face of charges he conspired to bribe assistant college coaches.
May 01, 2019
A former sports agent runner charged with bribing assistant college basketball coaches took the stand Wednesday in his defense, testifying that while he has paid college basketball players, he never bribed any coaches, a plan he said was forced on him by undercover FBI agents and informants.
April 30, 2019
A key witness for the government in the latest college basketball corruption trial admitted Tuesday during questioning from defense attorneys that he never saw one of the defendants provide money to a trio of assistant coaches who pled guilty to taking bribes and that none of the coaches the other defendant referred to the witness took any illicit payments.
April 29, 2019
Defense attorneys for two men accused of bribing college basketball coaches renewed efforts Monday to force information and testimony from FBI agents who ran a sting operation to collect audio and video recordings that prosecutors allege are evidence of the scheme.
April 26, 2019
A New York federal jury on Friday heard a man accused of bribing assistant college basketball coaches telling an undercover FBI agent "never text it" when it has to do with money, as prosecutors played a wiretapped phone call in the latest trial over alleged corruption in college basketball.
April 25, 2019
Prosecutors played a video for jurors Thursday in the latest college basketball corruption trial that showed an aspiring agent handing what their witness testified was a $6,000 bribe to a former Texas Christian University assistant coach, one of a series of transactions that allegedly took place in a Las Vegas hotel room.
April 24, 2019
A University of Arizona basketball coach was again mentioned in a federal corruption probe when secretly recorded conversations of a defendant discussing an alleged plan to make illicit payments to a top recruit were played for a New York federal jury Wednesday.
April 23, 2019
A former financial adviser turned agent for federal investigators testified Tuesday in the New York federal trial of two men charged with funneling bribes to college basketball coaches that he had paid thousands of dollars to college football players, a bombshell admission that hints at wider corruption in college sports.