Aspiring sports business manager Christian Dawkins and youth basketball coach Merl Code were convicted of bribery conspiracy Wednesday as part of the college basketball corruption scandal.
The chief executive of a fledgling sports management company and a former Adidas employee were convicted Wednesday of bribing coaches to steer players to the firm, the final active case in the long-running federal probe into college basketball corruption.guilty of bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery from efforts — some recorded by cameras, wiretaps or undercover FBI agents posing as investors — to lure clients to the company he founded.
“And while their convictions mark the culmination of the criminal charges announced by this Office in September 2017,” U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said in a statement, “they should also make clear to those who might be tempted to engage in the sort of misconduct these prosecutions have only begun to expose: that bribery is a crime, one this Office is prepared to charge criminally and prosecute to the full extent of the law.
Three former assistant coaches charged in the case — Arizona’s Book Richardson, Oklahoma State’s Lamont Evans and— pleaded guilty this year as part of deals with prosecutors. They’ll be sentenced later this spring.
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