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Fri Jul 20, 2007, 05:48am
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FBI investigating NBA ref
THE FBI is investigating an NBA referee who allegedly was betting on basketball games - including ones he was officiating during the past two seasons - as part of an organized-crime probe in the Big Apple, The Post has learned. The investigation, which began more than a year ago, is zeroing in on blockbuster allegations that the referee was making calls that affected the point spread to guarantee that he - and the hoods who had their hooks in him - cashed in on large bets.
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Fri Jul 20, 2007, 06:09am
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Wow. That is huge.
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Fri Jul 20, 2007, 06:35am
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If this were China, he would be looking at the death penalty.
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Fri Jul 20, 2007, 08:09am
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I don't know if it's because I don't trust tabloids, but this story smells funny...too vague. Sounds more like a made-for-TV movie script than reality. I hope this is more an over-reaching beat writer than a factual story.
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Fri Jul 20, 2007, 09:07am
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Fri Jul 20, 2007, 09:10am
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The FBI started to get suspicious when he called traveling.
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Fri Jul 20, 2007, 09:12am
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The obvious question: Who?
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Fri Jul 20, 2007, 09:27am
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The NYP article referred to the official as being male, so we know it's not Violet Palmer.
 Also, he was allegedly betting on games in the 2005-06, so that removes the new guys in 2006-07. So we're left with pretty much every else. I can't see any of the vets being involved. Guys like Bavetta, Crawford, Crawford, Mauer, Salvatore, etc... I bet the NBA now will go back and look at each of the calls by this official in both of the mentioned seasons, and determine if any game-changing damage was done. I would think however, that this type of damage is detectable by the league. As for a call missed/made that might earn a bettor some cashola because the call/non-call affected the point spread, that is harder to detect.
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Fri Jul 20, 2007, 09:31am
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With todays technology and the scrutiny and evalation system that today's referees are under, could this really go undetected for so long (the article said the past 2 seasons). I've talked to NBA and college referees that said every call they make and don't make gets charted. I'm not sure if that's every game, but I just can't see how this could really happen without some supervisor seeing some inconsistencies. JMO
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Fri Jul 20, 2007, 11:41am
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Fri Jul 20, 2007, 12:21pm
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What I've heard....
The official in question is not one of the 'name-brand' officials that we can all name. I also understand that his called would not have determined wins and losses, per se, but more point spreads. Allowing a basket, calling more handchecks and such early in quarters to get Team X to the bonus quicker, stuff like that.
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Sat Jul 21, 2007, 04:06pm
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Fri Jul 20, 2007, 12:34pm
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I'd put the odds at 60-40 that he'll turn states evidence.
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Fri Jul 20, 2007, 12:49pm
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Here they are. Anyone for a poll? :)
Bennie Adams #47
Mark Ayotte #56 Dick Bavetta #27 Matt Boland #46 Tony Brothers #25 Tony Brown #30 Mike "Duke" Callahan #24 James Capers #19 Jim Clark #6 Derrick Collins #54 Sean Corbin #33 Dan Crawford #43 Joe Crawford #17 Marc Davis #34 Bob Delaney #26 Joe DeRosa #14 Tim Donaghy #21 Kevin Fehr #39 Joe Forte #45 Scott Foster #48 Pat Fraher #52 Bernie Fryer #7 Ron Garretson #10 Luis Grillo #8 David Guthrie #60 Steve Javie #29 David Jones #36 Bill Kennedy #55 Jess Kersey #20 Courtney Kirkland #61 Eric Lewis #42 Ed Malloy #73 Ken Mauer #41 Monty McCutchen #13 Rodney Mott #71 Jack Nies #35 Tommy Nunez Jr. #28 Ron Olesiak #44 Violet Palmer #12 Jason Phillips #23 Olandis Poole #50 Derek Richardson #63 Leroy Richardson #51 Phil Robinson #11 Robbie Robinson #53 Eli Roe #64 Eddie Rush #32 Bennett Salvatore #15 Michael Smith #38 Bill Spooner #22 Derrick Stafford #9 Scott Wall #31 Tom Washington #49 Greg Willard #57 Leon Wood #40 Sean Wright #65 Mark Wunderlich #18 Zach Zarba #58 Gary Zielinski #59
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