Another person has been arrested and charged in the Jontay Porter betting scandal, shedding more light on what the banned former NBA player allegedly told his co-conspirators. Sunday, police arrested Shane Hennen at the Las Vegas airport, according to the spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Federal prosecutors say that Hennen was part of a conspiracy to defraud an unnamed sports betting company, and Hennen will be charged in the Eastern District with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering.
Source: New York Times
Source: New York Times
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Another person has been arrested with a connection to the Jontay Porter betting scandal. Porter pled guilty in July. Five people, who federal prosecutors call co-conspirators, have now been arrested nytimes.com/athletic/60581… – 1:14 PM
Another person has been arrested with a connection to the Jontay Porter betting scandal. Porter pled guilty in July. Five people, who federal prosecutors call co-conspirators, have now been arrested nytimes.com/athletic/60581… – 1:14 PM
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Porter told his co-conspirators that he would take himself out early of a Raptors game on Jan. 26 because of an eye injury and that he would leave a March 20 game early by saying he was too ill to keep playing, according to federal prosecutors. Porter did this, prosecutors said, as a way to clear his own “significant gambling debts” and to help the co-conspirators win prop bets placed on him not reaching the over in certain statistical categories. -via New York Times / January 13, 2025
Hennen received information from another of Porter’s alleged co-conspirators that the then-Raptors center was planning to manipulate his on-court minutes to help bettors win their prop bets, according to a complaint unsealed Monday. Porter pled guilty in July to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Four people were charged and arrested in June in connection to the alleged scheme. -via New York Times / January 13, 2025
Former Toronto Raptors centre Jontay Porter will have the sentencing hearing in his criminal case tomorrow. Porter pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud on July 10. -via SportsNet / December 17, 2024