Donaghy said Boston is gonna kill the Sixers. In Martino's words, "Blowouts, he can't control." In 2015, Mastronardo had a stroke and died in prison. It was 0.232. That is incorrect. "If you looked at the stats," said one gambler in The Office at the time, "you could see he was calling more fouls on the team he bet against and less fouls on the team he bet on. They had to get back to it. By Donaghy's own admission in his memoir, so much cash started rolling in that he had problems knowing physically where to stash it so his wife wouldn't start asking questions. The agents informed Stern that it had come to their attention that one of their veteran refs, Tim Donaghy, had been betting on his own games and giving inside information to a gambling ring, for a fee. The final game, Martino remembers, was a loss. (Concannon declined comment for this story.) He did well. It was situated in a house a block off the beach. I can imagine TV producers were looking for an on-air mix-up. In July of 2018, he announced a multiyear deal for MGM Resorts to be the "official gaming partner of the NBA.". For 11 years, the official plotline has been that Donaghy was a rogue, gambling-addicted ref who made some bets on his own games -- and nothing more. He felt the trends were embodied in the stats: The volume of Donaghy's calls was noticeable; it must be obvious to all. Jimmy Battista, also known by the monikers "The Sheep" and "Bah-Bah," was a 41-year-old man who struggled with stress, obesity, and an OxyContin addiction. Gaming the Game is definitive, vital to comprehending the NBA scandal and how sports-betting money zips around the world. All those gray-area decisions you have to make, Tim? He had many lucrative gambling-related businesses. Print length 320 pages Language English Publisher UNKNO A referee wishing to manipulate game scores on these occasions would likely find he lacked much ability to sway the matter -- or the need to do so, if the score was already in his favor. Battista would cut a deal, pleading guilty in April 2008 only to the charge of transmission of gambling information. He documented a 78% Donaghy win rate and paying him $201,000 for his tips, just a cog in Battistas tentacles, which reached Asia, Europe and Vegas. She describes the moment she picked up his official NBA jacket to put it in the wash and found in the pocket "a huge wad of $100 bills rolled in a rubber band." That was obvious. He has given up making betting picks for a tout service, which he did for a time after his release from prison. (The last time he was arrested, the police dug up his yard and found sections of PVC pipe buried there. Popeye, no dummy, asked the obvious question: Who's the handicapper behind these games? He forfeited $5 million, agreed to three years' probation and now lives in the Lakes Region of central New Hampshire, in a home with views of the cold blue lakes and, beyond them, the massed forms of the White Mountains. But suddenly this recreational dumb-money insurance salesman was putting five dimes each on select NBA games and beating the bookies? So what do you do when you stumble upon a possible criminal conspiracy in progress? Vercher told me that, in December 2009, after questioning from reporters, including ones from ESPN, she had wanted Donaghy to take a polygraph that asked point-blank whether he'd fixed games. Tim sits down with Jimmy Battista and Tommy Martino hoping to find out new information about the relationship between referees Tim Donaghy and Scott Foster. According to a court document, Donaghy and Concannon placed their first bet on a game Donaghy was refereeing in March 2003 -- more than four years and four NBA seasons before he was caught. "He said, 'I can't tell you. One, Johnny, lived in Jersey. Then later in the day, with the price right, you gobble up all the Boston you can. There had to be a pattern. We began by obtaining the trading histories for those games and through those determined which team was the more heavily bet upon. As Scala told me, "If you can envision a spiderweb -- it might not be directly, but one or two or three spheres out, you find a name. "Tim was very, very secretive. Once we completed all of that, what we uncovered was that Donaghy's foul calls favored the team that received the heavier betting 70 percent of the time. "I started thinking -- or should I say, rationalizing: S---, everyone on the staff bets," he wrote. Donaghy rose from the table. But he has kept the investigative notes he took on his FBI cases, including the Donaghy case. Taylor "Popeye" Breton "We were prepared to do some undercover things to corroborate Donaghy's story," Scala says. That's what they were looking for. When Donaghy became an NBA ref, that continued, sometimes with hookers. The guy's career was ruined and his life in shambles. But stomping out a Mafia profit center was. Lamell McMorris served as the lead negotiator for the referees' union in its collective bargaining with the league. In April 2007, a few days after Battista checked out of rehab for drug abuse, FBI special agents Paul Harris and Gerard Conrad knocked for the first time on Battista's door. Veteran reporter who broke the Donaghy story for the New York Post. The gambler described the conversation with Donaghy to me on the condition that I not use his name in the story. Through them, we deduced which side Donaghy had picked for Battista to bet on. Tim Donaghy was Elvis; he was the king of fixing games." This success drew in another form of attention, this time from the FBI. According to statements Donaghy made to federal law enforcement, Battista's deal was effectively an act of extortion. . Supervisor of the FBI probe. According to Martino, if Donaghy mentioned out-of-state Johnny's name, the pick was for the visiting team. Vercher asked him why. The Philly ref blood runs deep. Black-market street bookies from all over the U.S., sharp pro gamblers and digital-savvy entrepreneurs with coding skills were all setting up online sportsbooks, often establishing themselves in places with little regulatory oversight, like Costa Rica, Antigua, Jamaica and Curaao. In October 2002, Donaghy and Concannon decided to pool their money and wager on Ruggieri's picks. Donaghy was horrible betting every other sport. And so it is that May's Supreme Court decision demands a review of the Donaghy affair. ], Griffin, 52, said. Joe Vito cannot speak to that today; he was busted in 2012 at age 63 for illegal bookmaking in an unrelated federal case. There's a defined trading session. "My life is ruined," Kulle recalled Donaghy saying. Im not nave, Griffin said. ACCORDING TO SCALA, the truncated probe meant the Feds left several lines of inquiry hanging. With Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul delving deep into the way the 2007 NBA betting scandal played out, we get an insight into not just the individuals involved but also gambling as a concept. I have incredibly low expectations for whatever they produce, Griffin said by phone from Charleston, South Carolina. A few years ago, he bought its rights and original digital files. High school friend of Donaghy and Battista who served as the go-between in the betting scheme during the 2006-2007 NBA season. The main problem now was keeping a lid on the thing. ", Mark Fainaru-Wada on how broadcasting icon Bob Costas was yanked from the Super Bowl. They would use, per Martino's statement to the FBI, a code. Around the same time as Stern's news conference, the NBA also commissioned an investigation, to be led by Larry Pedowitz, a partner with the elite New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Tony "Tiger" Rufo Then, at some point in 2003, Donaghy and Concannon crossed the Rubicon. He already knew of the NBA referees gambling issue owing to his profession, and they soon somehow agreed to work together for some extra cash Tim would give him picks, and hed run with it. These games would be mostly winners, so Popeye should feel free to move them -- and copy them too. Scala reached the FBI's mandatory retirement age in 2008 and is now a private detective based on Long Island. It touts interviews with Donaghy, Battista and Martino not Griffin. The Celtics were favored by 1.5 points. The next night, the trio convened at Martinos house to set terms. White-collar criminal defense attorney who led the NBA-commissioned outside investigation into the Donaghy affair. He was 27 years old. Tim Donaghy was unwittingly placing himself in harms way, Griffin wrote. Ensuing betting-scandal headlines jolted the NBA. Once I realized that Id be dealing with these offshore guys who may as well be your next-door neighbors, I was overwhelmed with that entire sociology.. Whether or not Battista made them explicitly aware of his agreement with Donaghy, their money was used to make one very specific genre of bet: games refereed by Tim Donaghy. Who Is Jimmy Battista? He was sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in the gambling ring. Holy s---! But the longtime crime reporter says he did at one point talk to a person "involved with Stern and the NBA in that era." Guess which one contains footnotes, source notes, cross-referenced facts from many officials and resources and exhaustive due diligence conducted by a forensic expert with a Ph.D. in Administration of Justice from Penn State? So I didnt really have time to focus on it, let alone enjoy it., I dont want to say the NBA scandal was easy, he said, but once I got access to personnel in the U.S. attorneys offices and FBI agents, they were not only confirming what Battista said but were elaborating.. James "Jimmy" "Bah-Bah" "The Sheep" Battista was a stressed-out, overweight, Oxy-addicted 41-year-old, in the hole to some underground gamblers for sums he'd sort of lost track of, when he settled in to watch an NBA game for which he believed he'd just put in the fix. His income now reportedly comes from rental properties he owns. Short of an outright confession, how could you prove that Donaghy had fixed the games anyway? None of them says anymore that Donaghy "was a good ref. Martino said Donaghy cheated on tests, too, at Villanova. Today, Kim Donaghy lives in Sarasota, Florida, where she and her then-husband and four daughters moved in 2005. He thought he was having a heart attack. Donaghy, Griffin said, distracts and diverts. Jimmy Battista, nickname "The Sheep," is a professional gambler. Its absurd. "During all this s---," he said. In the runup to the 2024 election, the Sun-Times, WBEZ and the Center for Effective Government at the University of Chicago will be collaborating on a project to educate our audience about the threat to our democracy and how we can form a more perfect union., Tim Donaghy returns to spotlight in Netflix documentary but somethings missing, Bears draft review: Pieces in place for Justin Fields, White Sox win! Our experts predict every series, 2023 NBA playoffs: Second-round series, Finals, MVP odds, 'He looks better than ever': Why the Orlando bubble was 'just the beginning' for Jamal Murray, Pregame chats, language arts and 'a lot of fines': Inside NBA player-ref dynamics, United States of sports betting: An updated map of where every state stands. But no. Donaghy then found another publisher: a small, independent, newly established outfit -- so new that Personal Foul would be its inaugural volume -- based in Tampa, Florida, and operated by a political consultant and publicist named Shawna Vercher. The Hero of Goodall Park: A true-crime drama 50 years in the making. The person wanted to deliver a message about Weiss' more critical reporting on the scandal. He was already thinking, How can I get a piece of this action? What Battista, Ruggieri and the rest did was follow the Concannon-Donaghy bets with bets of their own -- $30,000, $50,000, $100,000 a game, according to a person familiar with the betting. He knew how to control it. James "Jimmy" "Bah-Bah" "The Sheep" Battista was a stressed-out, overweight, Oxy-addicted 41-year old, in the hole to some underground gamblers for sums he'd sort of lost track of, when he settled in to watch an NBA game for which he believed he'd just put in the fix. Kulle's eyes were practically dollar signs. A decade later, in the break room of the hair salon he worked in, Martino told me how it had gone: Martino had already known that their mutual buddy Tim Donaghy had been betting on his own NBA games with Concannon, and winning those bets. Donaghy didnt like betting through former St. Josephs hoopster Jack Concannon, but he couldnt have known Battista had been tracking his NBA wagers with Concannon since 2003, when Battista was in Curacao. And, if he did, what was his method? We had a big bet on every f---ing game.". Three. Mendy Rudolph, Yogi Strom, Jake O'Donnell, Billy Oakes, Ed. The story examines Donaghy's relationships with professional gambler Jimmy Battista and Tommy Martino (the intermediary between Donaghy and Battista), the involvement of Italian-American crime families in the scheme, and the FBI's failed efforts to "flip" Battista into a cooperating witness. His mind still foggy with sleep, Nunn could hear the voice of his boss, Joel Litvin, then NBA president, asking questions about Tim Donaghy. To discuss Donaghy with more than a dozen of them now is to sense that their silence has more to do with the fact that they hate the guy. Still, as Rush explained to me over the phone, these were just "trends," not "red flags," and the NBA and the Pedowitz people were interested only in red flags. Scala won't say whether he believes the NBA leaked the story. An NBA referee, according to the informant, was "in the pocket" of some people in the sports-gambling underworld. Sarah Spain on Chiefs running backs coach Deland McCullough's search for his biological parents, When the FBI began interviewing Donaghy's referee colleagues, the agents, according to Scala, eventually spoke to perhaps 10 of them. They played 18 holes four or five days a week. When Donaghy was still slogging it in the minors in the early 1990s, Rush had taken it upon himself to mentor his young fellow Philadelphian. They were the gamblers and bookmakers closest to Battista. THEY CALLED IT The Office. Wife of Tim Donaghy at the time of the scandal. The Pedowitz Report made no such conclusion. Better to cooperate. NBA commissioner at the time of the scandal. It was too obvious. But it wasn't just the NBA; according to court documents, they decided to bet on Donaghy's own games. Furthermore, exceedingly large price jumps or plunges, or even the timing of certain price moves, could signal the trading strategies of a gambling syndicate. Ronnie Nunn In other words, Donaghy's track record of making calls that favored his bet was 23-3-4. Tim Donaghy, 55, was born in Pennsylvania on 7 January 1967 and worked in the NBA from 1994-2007. But the gig is well-paid -- even rookies in 2007 could make six figures. " And still it went on Donaghy in Dallas on Jan. 30 calling one foul against the home team and 12 against Seattle, including six straight against the Sonics when the margin was 13 or fewer. There was, after all, that definitive frame within the 2006-07 season: the 40 games between the beginning of the marriage and the end of Battista's involvement. From 2003 to 2007, we didn't miss a game. If the score in a game widened too far beyond the betting line, Donaghy told Martino, Donaghy would be powerless to rein it back in. He said his old squad had received the initial ref-in-the-pocket tip in October 2006 -- almost two months before Battista had made his marriage with Donaghy. He entered a conspiracy only when Battista and Thomas Martino, the go . For that reason, the NBA is particularly wary of any hint of the fix. Battista, who'd drifted as a bartender, restaurant manager and small-time hustler after high school, was in his early 20s when, according to Gaming the Game, a book about the Donaghy scandal by former Philly police detective Sean Patrick Griffin, Rinnier recruited him to join the group. By most accounts, Tony "Tiger" Rufo is no longer a gambler. If the pick missed, the ref owed nothing; Battista would eat the loss. The Feds wanted to talk to me and go against him, but I wouldnt, Battista told Griffin. However, when Jimmy had a falling out with the betting institution around 2006, he decided to approach Tim through their mutual school friend Thomas Tommy Martino with a lucrative idea. In Sarasota, Kim Donaghy printed out for me the first 98 pages of her unfinished and unpublished memoir, The Ref's Wife. Gambler, bookmaker and great-great grandson of the founder of Goldman Sachs, now deceased. Popeye's real name was Taylor Breton, and he was the great-great-grandson of Marcus Goldman, the founder, in 1869, of Goldman Sachs. If it were shown that Donaghy had indeed fixed the games he reffed, it would reveal an uncomfortable truth, one that almost everyone -- leagues, teams, fans, gamblers -- would prefer to ignore: just how easy and profitable it is to fix an American sport. But Battista refused to squeal on Donaghy. All this occurred while Rush was director of officials, from 1998 to 2003. They'd shut down a Gambino profit center. When I visited her in Sarasota not long ago, at the office where she works, she made it clear the divorce was a long time coming. "It was a job I was born to do," Donaghy wrote in his 2009 memoir, Personal Foul, but the sentence carries a double meaning. Yeah, I did. ", From the archives: How former ref Tim Donaghy conspired to fix NBA games, 'It's going to be epic': Stephen Curry and LeBron James face off -- again, Curry sets G7 record with 50 as Dubs move on, Hobbled Butler serves as 'decoy' late in Heat win, Grizz's Brooks doesn't regret verbal jab at LeBron, 'This one's on me': Brunson self-critical after loss, Jokic on Murray's playoffs: 'We are following him', Rivers: Embiid likely doubtful for G1 vs. Celtics, 'This is probably his best shot': Why the time is now for Harden and the 76ers, Celtics-76ers first look: What could decide the battle of East heavyweights, Tigers coach fumes at Zaire v Dwyane comparisons after loss, Which teams will reach the NBA conference finals? "They were intelligent guys who just couldn't have full-time day jobs," says a former gambler who knew them. "Tiger was his boss." But now, when Battista arrived at Martino's house, he dropped the bomb. Murray Weiss I cant say one nice thing about him. The Celtics won 101-81. He had the artwork. In-season, it is demanding, tiring, high stress. It is likely Tim did not know just how influential Jimmy had become, or how Battistas words and deeds now affected bettors and bookies worldwide.. But the crucial betting information -- which sides of which games the ref favored -- had been seeping into the black-market gambling business. Normally this guy was a $100 or $200 or maybe $500 bettor. Accounts of the meeting differ. They were now entering the sixth week of the scheme -- what you might call a sustained period of time. "We all had expectations that Tim was going to be really, really good. Toronto, favored by 10.5, covering Money now pouring into games Donaghy is refereeing, the lines during trading sessions swinging violently, like stocks beset by takeover rumors-widening and narrowing by 1.5, 3, 4.5, even 5 points, unheard of in the NBA except in the case of significant player injuries Battista popping pills, Vicodin and OxyContin, sometimes falling asleep at the dinner table at restaurants, sometimes vomiting blood. The important comparison is to the team that received the greater amount of betting dollars. But it isnt really a debate. Battista was positioned well enough in that world that, without Donaghy's knowledge but based on Donaghy's picks, he'd helped set up a kind of loose, disorderly hedge fund. IT REMAINS ONE of the most tantalizing questions in all of American professional sport: Does game-fixing still exist? A "free roll," as they call it. Jimmy Battista's NBA bets drew the attention of the world's largest gamblers, who attributed his actions to referee Tim Donaghy, a professional NBA official who was charged in 2007 with participating in a large gambling syndicate. Griffins impressive work is again relevant because on Aug. 30, Netflix is scheduled to air Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul, about the scandal. From here on out, Battista said, he and Donaghy would never communicate directly. Married to the daughter of powerful Philly mayor Frank Rizzo, who held office in the 1970s, Mastronardo was well-connected. Kim filed for divorce in late 2007, a few months after the scandal became public. Jimmy Battista, to participate in the betting. In the casino, Donaghy wore a baseball cap low to hide his eyes; everyone knows about the cameras in casinos, and the NBA forbade any gambling by its refs (with the exception, oddly, of horse racing). "Then you gotta cover the f---ing spread." For that reason, he had a lot of cash on hand. "He said he'd pick on the big center, or the most valuable player of each team, and he'd try to get them in foul trouble. It would have been great for me, great for sales, just for selfish reasons, Griffin said. And then there's the offseason. Battista and Donaghy were never to speak directly. ", The gambler added, "He also told me they were betting millions and he was an idiot not to ask for more.". Battista rolled $7,000 in a rubber band two for the Celtics tip, five as a signing bonus at the edge of Martinos couch for Donaghy. To help get his clients' bets down, Battista as a bet broker needed Joe Vito. "Someone in the NBA notified the press [in order] to stop this investigation, in my opinion. And so their syndicate came to be known by some as the Animals. IT WOULD NOT be the only time Tim Donaghy would come clean. Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul is available to stream now exclusively on Netflix. Blessed with the right connections, and after four years officiating in the CBA, the NBA's minor league, he was called up to the majors in 1994. Stern's conclusion that Donaghy did not fix games would be validated by the federal investigation. Battista was a creature of that world. They came out of the station bearing a packet of rolling papers, and right there inside the car, under the fluorescent gas station lights, in the rental-return sprawl adjacent to the Philadelphia International Airport runway, Martino rolled a joint. Jimmy Battista Net Worth Jimmy Battista should have a net worth above $1 million. "When did he tell you this?" "He gets so pale sometimes, he turns yellow, I swear to god," Martino told me. White Sox win! Both Battista and Martino have said that there were no threats, that everyone was nervous but the situation seemed copacetic, and that what sold Donaghy on the deal was Battista saying to him: We know you're giving the games to Jack Concannon. FBI special agent and head of the investigative unit focused on the Gambino crime family at the time of the investigation. He admitted to fixing the games.". They were an organized crime squad, dealing with murder and mayhem. Ed T. Rush At the same time, at the request of the NBA, former prosecutor Larry Pedowitz conducted an independent investigation of Donaghy's misconduct and issued publicly a 133-page report. Whenever Scala's special agents interviewed NBA executives for the case, they heard a refrain: "They told us, 'You can't fix a game in the NBA. The Animals went so far as to study the box scores after each of Donaghy's outings. The heart of labor is beating strong in Chicago and Illinois, Why were launching The Democracy Solutions Project. "You wanna get paid?" Twenty months later, all three had avoided trials and awaited sentencing, by U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon, in Brooklyn. (Rufo declined to comment for this story.) Tim Donaghy The big problem, Battista said, was that the betting markets appeared to be getting wise to the emergence of an astonishingly accurate NBA handicapper. The Timmy Elvis Donaghy thing was only a small part of everything I had going on, and I didnt want anyone to find out. Netflix, to me, is the next iteration of that., Donaghy published a book in June 2010, nine months before Gaming.. But he'd remained close friends after high school with both Donaghy and Battista, who, in turn, were never that close with each other. ", In the early 2000s, Rush went on to explain, the NBA undertook a wholesale revision of its refereeing guidelines, changes that would naturally lead to the entire NBA referee corps calling a greater volume of fouls, at least initially. "Uh, no.") "If what you're telling me is true," Kulle said he told Donaghy, "you're gonna be rich.". Battista arrived with a thick stack of $100 bills bound in a rubber band -- $2,000 for the agreed-upon fee and $3,000 as a sweetener. And what more did you want? This scandal involved two childhood friends, Jimmy Battista, the gambler, and Tommy Martino, the go-between, who carried the money and information between Donaghy and Battista. A few weeks later, four days after the Post story broke, David Stern gave his first news conference. Only a fool, Dr. Sean Patrick Griffin wrote, would have ignored Battistas ridiculously obvious wagering success.. Rush recalls watching maybe 10 such games. Battista had such a network. They were among his biggest brokerage clients and most trusted outs. Had Battista gone to trial, Donaghys character would have come under immense scrutiny. Malloy, Crawford and Callahan all attended Delaware County's Cardinal O'Hara High School, Donaghy's alma mater -- a cradle within a cradle. Based on information from Tommy Martino, among others, there were reasons to suspect Donaghy had money on the vast majority of his games during the fateful 2006-07 season, from the very beginning until as late as April 11 -- 65 games in all. His picks were winning at an 88 percent clip, totally unheard of in sports betting for any sustained period of time. On Feb. 22, 2019, the NBA issued a statement in response to the ESPN story on the Donaghy scandal: "The Tim Donaghy matter concluded over a decade ago with a full investigation by the federal government, Donaghy's termination from the NBA, and his conviction for criminal acts. But the genesis of their falling-out occurred when Donaghy was still making the rounds to promote the book, according to documents filed in court as part of the lawsuit. One expert offers tips to brew the perfect cup at home. Among them: Who made the real money? IT WASN'T JUST Donaghy who tried to convince the FBI that he didn't fix games. Joseph "Joe Vito" Mastronardo Perhaps this is why the men who formed Battista's loose, disorderly investor group, the men who were "on the ticket," have, for all these years, remained in the shadows. "If you're going to ask me if I would do it differently now, the answer is yes. The play claims that his strict, god-fearing family caused him to rebel when he was younger, but he wound up going out with the wrong crowd. In the end, Rush felt there was no need to relay his observations to the Pedowitz people. 2 documentary Operation Flagrant Foul, on the 2007 gambling scandal centered on former NBA referee Tim Donaghy, is how it's not just about Donaghy. I accepted because Im an academic; we argue for a living. After Donaghy, the NBA put into place a host of new measures designed to detect any nascent game-fixing schemes. But the person who knows more about the case than anyone isnt on the show and wont be watching. but my gambling instincts were taking over, and I was perversely excited.. They had possibly just stumbled on the ultimate edge. The effort to hide it was in vain. Twice, Griffin said, he appeared in a television studio to partake in documentaries in which Donaghy was supposed to appear. Martino did recall Donaghy telling him that certain games would be unfixable. They just march on, say whatever they want, anyway. And then one afternoon the case agent came into my office. When presented with that data, ESPN statisticians crunched the numbers and revealed: The odds that Tim Donaghy would have randomly made calls that produced that imbalance are 6,155-to-1. His body turned numb. It wasn't long before people wanted in on the action. Watching games for Pedowitz, Rush noticed the same propensity to call "literally interpreted" fouls in situations where they were not warranted -- ones that ran counter to the flow of the game. I would not have gone to brief Stern," Scala told me. "You've got to arrange a meeting with Donaghy," Battista said. Everything from drugs to money to gambling was prevalent in the area he served, which ultimately kickstarted his love affair with the latter as well he actually grew into a thriving bookmaker. Battista envisioned the arrangement lasting for 20 years. He then did the same set of calculations for the other two referees on the floor in each of Donaghy's games. The FBI investigated the disgraced refs claims of other NBA officials involvement, with negative results. ", Said another: "Did I assume he was fixing the games? It hadn't taken long to deduce. It was January 2007. Every foul call was logged, the resulting data analyzed, along with betting-market line-movement histories for every game Donaghy reffed that season.

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Donaghy said Boston is gonna kill the Sixers. In Martino's words, "Blowouts, he can't control." In 2015, Mastronardo had a stroke and died in prison. It was 0.232. That is incorrect. "If you looked at the stats," said one gambler in The Office at the time, "you could see he was calling more fouls on the team he bet against and less fouls on the team he bet on. They had to get back to it. By Donaghy's own admission in his memoir, so much cash started rolling in that he had problems knowing physically where to stash it so his wife wouldn't start asking questions. The agents informed Stern that it had come to their attention that one of their veteran refs, Tim Donaghy, had been betting on his own games and giving inside information to a gambling ring, for a fee. The final game, Martino remembers, was a loss. (Concannon declined comment for this story.) He did well. It was situated in a house a block off the beach. I can imagine TV producers were looking for an on-air mix-up. In July of 2018, he announced a multiyear deal for MGM Resorts to be the "official gaming partner of the NBA.". For 11 years, the official plotline has been that Donaghy was a rogue, gambling-addicted ref who made some bets on his own games -- and nothing more. He felt the trends were embodied in the stats: The volume of Donaghy's calls was noticeable; it must be obvious to all. Jimmy Battista, also known by the monikers "The Sheep" and "Bah-Bah," was a 41-year-old man who struggled with stress, obesity, and an OxyContin addiction. Gaming the Game is definitive, vital to comprehending the NBA scandal and how sports-betting money zips around the world. All those gray-area decisions you have to make, Tim? He had many lucrative gambling-related businesses. Print length 320 pages Language English Publisher UNKNO A referee wishing to manipulate game scores on these occasions would likely find he lacked much ability to sway the matter -- or the need to do so, if the score was already in his favor. Battista would cut a deal, pleading guilty in April 2008 only to the charge of transmission of gambling information. He documented a 78% Donaghy win rate and paying him $201,000 for his tips, just a cog in Battistas tentacles, which reached Asia, Europe and Vegas. She describes the moment she picked up his official NBA jacket to put it in the wash and found in the pocket "a huge wad of $100 bills rolled in a rubber band." That was obvious. He has given up making betting picks for a tout service, which he did for a time after his release from prison. (The last time he was arrested, the police dug up his yard and found sections of PVC pipe buried there. Popeye, no dummy, asked the obvious question: Who's the handicapper behind these games? He forfeited $5 million, agreed to three years' probation and now lives in the Lakes Region of central New Hampshire, in a home with views of the cold blue lakes and, beyond them, the massed forms of the White Mountains. But suddenly this recreational dumb-money insurance salesman was putting five dimes each on select NBA games and beating the bookies? So what do you do when you stumble upon a possible criminal conspiracy in progress? Vercher told me that, in December 2009, after questioning from reporters, including ones from ESPN, she had wanted Donaghy to take a polygraph that asked point-blank whether he'd fixed games. Tim sits down with Jimmy Battista and Tommy Martino hoping to find out new information about the relationship between referees Tim Donaghy and Scott Foster. According to a court document, Donaghy and Concannon placed their first bet on a game Donaghy was refereeing in March 2003 -- more than four years and four NBA seasons before he was caught. "He said, 'I can't tell you. One, Johnny, lived in Jersey. Then later in the day, with the price right, you gobble up all the Boston you can. There had to be a pattern. We began by obtaining the trading histories for those games and through those determined which team was the more heavily bet upon. As Scala told me, "If you can envision a spiderweb -- it might not be directly, but one or two or three spheres out, you find a name. "Tim was very, very secretive. Once we completed all of that, what we uncovered was that Donaghy's foul calls favored the team that received the heavier betting 70 percent of the time. "I started thinking -- or should I say, rationalizing: S---, everyone on the staff bets," he wrote. Donaghy rose from the table. But he has kept the investigative notes he took on his FBI cases, including the Donaghy case. Taylor "Popeye" Breton "We were prepared to do some undercover things to corroborate Donaghy's story," Scala says. That's what they were looking for. When Donaghy became an NBA ref, that continued, sometimes with hookers. The guy's career was ruined and his life in shambles. But stomping out a Mafia profit center was. Lamell McMorris served as the lead negotiator for the referees' union in its collective bargaining with the league. In April 2007, a few days after Battista checked out of rehab for drug abuse, FBI special agents Paul Harris and Gerard Conrad knocked for the first time on Battista's door. Veteran reporter who broke the Donaghy story for the New York Post. The gambler described the conversation with Donaghy to me on the condition that I not use his name in the story. Through them, we deduced which side Donaghy had picked for Battista to bet on. Tim Donaghy was Elvis; he was the king of fixing games." This success drew in another form of attention, this time from the FBI. According to statements Donaghy made to federal law enforcement, Battista's deal was effectively an act of extortion. . Supervisor of the FBI probe. According to Martino, if Donaghy mentioned out-of-state Johnny's name, the pick was for the visiting team. Vercher asked him why. The Philly ref blood runs deep. Black-market street bookies from all over the U.S., sharp pro gamblers and digital-savvy entrepreneurs with coding skills were all setting up online sportsbooks, often establishing themselves in places with little regulatory oversight, like Costa Rica, Antigua, Jamaica and Curaao. In October 2002, Donaghy and Concannon decided to pool their money and wager on Ruggieri's picks. Donaghy was horrible betting every other sport. And so it is that May's Supreme Court decision demands a review of the Donaghy affair. ], Griffin, 52, said. Joe Vito cannot speak to that today; he was busted in 2012 at age 63 for illegal bookmaking in an unrelated federal case. There's a defined trading session. "My life is ruined," Kulle recalled Donaghy saying. Im not nave, Griffin said. ACCORDING TO SCALA, the truncated probe meant the Feds left several lines of inquiry hanging. With Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul delving deep into the way the 2007 NBA betting scandal played out, we get an insight into not just the individuals involved but also gambling as a concept. I have incredibly low expectations for whatever they produce, Griffin said by phone from Charleston, South Carolina. A few years ago, he bought its rights and original digital files. High school friend of Donaghy and Battista who served as the go-between in the betting scheme during the 2006-2007 NBA season. The main problem now was keeping a lid on the thing. ", Mark Fainaru-Wada on how broadcasting icon Bob Costas was yanked from the Super Bowl. They would use, per Martino's statement to the FBI, a code. Around the same time as Stern's news conference, the NBA also commissioned an investigation, to be led by Larry Pedowitz, a partner with the elite New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Tony "Tiger" Rufo Then, at some point in 2003, Donaghy and Concannon crossed the Rubicon. He already knew of the NBA referees gambling issue owing to his profession, and they soon somehow agreed to work together for some extra cash Tim would give him picks, and hed run with it. These games would be mostly winners, so Popeye should feel free to move them -- and copy them too. Scala reached the FBI's mandatory retirement age in 2008 and is now a private detective based on Long Island. It touts interviews with Donaghy, Battista and Martino not Griffin. The Celtics were favored by 1.5 points. The next night, the trio convened at Martinos house to set terms. White-collar criminal defense attorney who led the NBA-commissioned outside investigation into the Donaghy affair. He was 27 years old. Tim Donaghy was unwittingly placing himself in harms way, Griffin wrote. Ensuing betting-scandal headlines jolted the NBA. Once I realized that Id be dealing with these offshore guys who may as well be your next-door neighbors, I was overwhelmed with that entire sociology.. Whether or not Battista made them explicitly aware of his agreement with Donaghy, their money was used to make one very specific genre of bet: games refereed by Tim Donaghy. Who Is Jimmy Battista? He was sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in the gambling ring. Holy s---! But the longtime crime reporter says he did at one point talk to a person "involved with Stern and the NBA in that era." Guess which one contains footnotes, source notes, cross-referenced facts from many officials and resources and exhaustive due diligence conducted by a forensic expert with a Ph.D. in Administration of Justice from Penn State? So I didnt really have time to focus on it, let alone enjoy it., I dont want to say the NBA scandal was easy, he said, but once I got access to personnel in the U.S. attorneys offices and FBI agents, they were not only confirming what Battista said but were elaborating.. James "Jimmy" "Bah-Bah" "The Sheep" Battista was a stressed-out, overweight, Oxy-addicted 41-year-old, in the hole to some underground gamblers for sums he'd sort of lost track of, when he settled in to watch an NBA game for which he believed he'd just put in the fix. His income now reportedly comes from rental properties he owns. Short of an outright confession, how could you prove that Donaghy had fixed the games anyway? None of them says anymore that Donaghy "was a good ref. Martino said Donaghy cheated on tests, too, at Villanova. Today, Kim Donaghy lives in Sarasota, Florida, where she and her then-husband and four daughters moved in 2005. He thought he was having a heart attack. Donaghy, Griffin said, distracts and diverts. Jimmy Battista, nickname "The Sheep," is a professional gambler. Its absurd. "During all this s---," he said. In the runup to the 2024 election, the Sun-Times, WBEZ and the Center for Effective Government at the University of Chicago will be collaborating on a project to educate our audience about the threat to our democracy and how we can form a more perfect union., Tim Donaghy returns to spotlight in Netflix documentary but somethings missing, Bears draft review: Pieces in place for Justin Fields, White Sox win! Our experts predict every series, 2023 NBA playoffs: Second-round series, Finals, MVP odds, 'He looks better than ever': Why the Orlando bubble was 'just the beginning' for Jamal Murray, Pregame chats, language arts and 'a lot of fines': Inside NBA player-ref dynamics, United States of sports betting: An updated map of where every state stands. But no. Donaghy then found another publisher: a small, independent, newly established outfit -- so new that Personal Foul would be its inaugural volume -- based in Tampa, Florida, and operated by a political consultant and publicist named Shawna Vercher. The Hero of Goodall Park: A true-crime drama 50 years in the making. The person wanted to deliver a message about Weiss' more critical reporting on the scandal. He was already thinking, How can I get a piece of this action? What Battista, Ruggieri and the rest did was follow the Concannon-Donaghy bets with bets of their own -- $30,000, $50,000, $100,000 a game, according to a person familiar with the betting. He knew how to control it. James "Jimmy" "Bah-Bah" "The Sheep" Battista was a stressed-out, overweight, Oxy-addicted 41-year old, in the hole to some underground gamblers for sums he'd sort of lost track of, when he settled in to watch an NBA game for which he believed he'd just put in the fix. Kulle's eyes were practically dollar signs. A decade later, in the break room of the hair salon he worked in, Martino told me how it had gone: Martino had already known that their mutual buddy Tim Donaghy had been betting on his own NBA games with Concannon, and winning those bets. Donaghy didnt like betting through former St. Josephs hoopster Jack Concannon, but he couldnt have known Battista had been tracking his NBA wagers with Concannon since 2003, when Battista was in Curacao. And, if he did, what was his method? We had a big bet on every f---ing game.". Three. Mendy Rudolph, Yogi Strom, Jake O'Donnell, Billy Oakes, Ed. The story examines Donaghy's relationships with professional gambler Jimmy Battista and Tommy Martino (the intermediary between Donaghy and Battista), the involvement of Italian-American crime families in the scheme, and the FBI's failed efforts to "flip" Battista into a cooperating witness. His mind still foggy with sleep, Nunn could hear the voice of his boss, Joel Litvin, then NBA president, asking questions about Tim Donaghy. To discuss Donaghy with more than a dozen of them now is to sense that their silence has more to do with the fact that they hate the guy. Still, as Rush explained to me over the phone, these were just "trends," not "red flags," and the NBA and the Pedowitz people were interested only in red flags. Scala won't say whether he believes the NBA leaked the story. An NBA referee, according to the informant, was "in the pocket" of some people in the sports-gambling underworld. Sarah Spain on Chiefs running backs coach Deland McCullough's search for his biological parents, When the FBI began interviewing Donaghy's referee colleagues, the agents, according to Scala, eventually spoke to perhaps 10 of them. They played 18 holes four or five days a week. When Donaghy was still slogging it in the minors in the early 1990s, Rush had taken it upon himself to mentor his young fellow Philadelphian. They were the gamblers and bookmakers closest to Battista. THEY CALLED IT The Office. Wife of Tim Donaghy at the time of the scandal. The Pedowitz Report made no such conclusion. Better to cooperate. NBA commissioner at the time of the scandal. It was too obvious. But it wasn't just the NBA; according to court documents, they decided to bet on Donaghy's own games. Furthermore, exceedingly large price jumps or plunges, or even the timing of certain price moves, could signal the trading strategies of a gambling syndicate. Ronnie Nunn In other words, Donaghy's track record of making calls that favored his bet was 23-3-4. Tim Donaghy, 55, was born in Pennsylvania on 7 January 1967 and worked in the NBA from 1994-2007. But the gig is well-paid -- even rookies in 2007 could make six figures. " And still it went on Donaghy in Dallas on Jan. 30 calling one foul against the home team and 12 against Seattle, including six straight against the Sonics when the margin was 13 or fewer. There was, after all, that definitive frame within the 2006-07 season: the 40 games between the beginning of the marriage and the end of Battista's involvement. From 2003 to 2007, we didn't miss a game. If the score in a game widened too far beyond the betting line, Donaghy told Martino, Donaghy would be powerless to rein it back in. He said his old squad had received the initial ref-in-the-pocket tip in October 2006 -- almost two months before Battista had made his marriage with Donaghy. He entered a conspiracy only when Battista and Thomas Martino, the go . For that reason, the NBA is particularly wary of any hint of the fix. Battista, who'd drifted as a bartender, restaurant manager and small-time hustler after high school, was in his early 20s when, according to Gaming the Game, a book about the Donaghy scandal by former Philly police detective Sean Patrick Griffin, Rinnier recruited him to join the group. By most accounts, Tony "Tiger" Rufo is no longer a gambler. If the pick missed, the ref owed nothing; Battista would eat the loss. The Feds wanted to talk to me and go against him, but I wouldnt, Battista told Griffin. However, when Jimmy had a falling out with the betting institution around 2006, he decided to approach Tim through their mutual school friend Thomas Tommy Martino with a lucrative idea. In Sarasota, Kim Donaghy printed out for me the first 98 pages of her unfinished and unpublished memoir, The Ref's Wife. Gambler, bookmaker and great-great grandson of the founder of Goldman Sachs, now deceased. Popeye's real name was Taylor Breton, and he was the great-great-grandson of Marcus Goldman, the founder, in 1869, of Goldman Sachs. If it were shown that Donaghy had indeed fixed the games he reffed, it would reveal an uncomfortable truth, one that almost everyone -- leagues, teams, fans, gamblers -- would prefer to ignore: just how easy and profitable it is to fix an American sport. But Battista refused to squeal on Donaghy. All this occurred while Rush was director of officials, from 1998 to 2003. They'd shut down a Gambino profit center. When I visited her in Sarasota not long ago, at the office where she works, she made it clear the divorce was a long time coming. "It was a job I was born to do," Donaghy wrote in his 2009 memoir, Personal Foul, but the sentence carries a double meaning. Yeah, I did. 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The Celtics won 101-81. He had the artwork. In-season, it is demanding, tiring, high stress. It is likely Tim did not know just how influential Jimmy had become, or how Battistas words and deeds now affected bettors and bookies worldwide.. But the crucial betting information -- which sides of which games the ref favored -- had been seeping into the black-market gambling business. Normally this guy was a $100 or $200 or maybe $500 bettor. Accounts of the meeting differ. They were now entering the sixth week of the scheme -- what you might call a sustained period of time. "We all had expectations that Tim was going to be really, really good. Toronto, favored by 10.5, covering Money now pouring into games Donaghy is refereeing, the lines during trading sessions swinging violently, like stocks beset by takeover rumors-widening and narrowing by 1.5, 3, 4.5, even 5 points, unheard of in the NBA except in the case of significant player injuries Battista popping pills, Vicodin and OxyContin, sometimes falling asleep at the dinner table at restaurants, sometimes vomiting blood. The important comparison is to the team that received the greater amount of betting dollars. But it isnt really a debate. Battista was positioned well enough in that world that, without Donaghy's knowledge but based on Donaghy's picks, he'd helped set up a kind of loose, disorderly hedge fund. IT REMAINS ONE of the most tantalizing questions in all of American professional sport: Does game-fixing still exist? A "free roll," as they call it. Jimmy Battista's NBA bets drew the attention of the world's largest gamblers, who attributed his actions to referee Tim Donaghy, a professional NBA official who was charged in 2007 with participating in a large gambling syndicate. Griffins impressive work is again relevant because on Aug. 30, Netflix is scheduled to air Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul, about the scandal. From here on out, Battista said, he and Donaghy would never communicate directly. Married to the daughter of powerful Philly mayor Frank Rizzo, who held office in the 1970s, Mastronardo was well-connected. Kim filed for divorce in late 2007, a few months after the scandal became public. Jimmy Battista, to participate in the betting. In the casino, Donaghy wore a baseball cap low to hide his eyes; everyone knows about the cameras in casinos, and the NBA forbade any gambling by its refs (with the exception, oddly, of horse racing). "Then you gotta cover the f---ing spread." For that reason, he had a lot of cash on hand. "He said he'd pick on the big center, or the most valuable player of each team, and he'd try to get them in foul trouble. It would have been great for me, great for sales, just for selfish reasons, Griffin said. And then there's the offseason. Battista and Donaghy were never to speak directly. ", The gambler added, "He also told me they were betting millions and he was an idiot not to ask for more.". Battista rolled $7,000 in a rubber band two for the Celtics tip, five as a signing bonus at the edge of Martinos couch for Donaghy. To help get his clients' bets down, Battista as a bet broker needed Joe Vito. "Someone in the NBA notified the press [in order] to stop this investigation, in my opinion. And so their syndicate came to be known by some as the Animals. IT WOULD NOT be the only time Tim Donaghy would come clean. Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul is available to stream now exclusively on Netflix. Blessed with the right connections, and after four years officiating in the CBA, the NBA's minor league, he was called up to the majors in 1994. Stern's conclusion that Donaghy did not fix games would be validated by the federal investigation. Battista was a creature of that world. They came out of the station bearing a packet of rolling papers, and right there inside the car, under the fluorescent gas station lights, in the rental-return sprawl adjacent to the Philadelphia International Airport runway, Martino rolled a joint. Jimmy Battista Net Worth Jimmy Battista should have a net worth above $1 million. "When did he tell you this?" "He gets so pale sometimes, he turns yellow, I swear to god," Martino told me. White Sox win! Both Battista and Martino have said that there were no threats, that everyone was nervous but the situation seemed copacetic, and that what sold Donaghy on the deal was Battista saying to him: We know you're giving the games to Jack Concannon. FBI special agent and head of the investigative unit focused on the Gambino crime family at the time of the investigation. He admitted to fixing the games.". They were an organized crime squad, dealing with murder and mayhem. Ed T. Rush At the same time, at the request of the NBA, former prosecutor Larry Pedowitz conducted an independent investigation of Donaghy's misconduct and issued publicly a 133-page report. Whenever Scala's special agents interviewed NBA executives for the case, they heard a refrain: "They told us, 'You can't fix a game in the NBA. The Animals went so far as to study the box scores after each of Donaghy's outings. The heart of labor is beating strong in Chicago and Illinois, Why were launching The Democracy Solutions Project. "You wanna get paid?" Twenty months later, all three had avoided trials and awaited sentencing, by U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon, in Brooklyn. (Rufo declined to comment for this story.) Tim Donaghy The big problem, Battista said, was that the betting markets appeared to be getting wise to the emergence of an astonishingly accurate NBA handicapper. The Timmy Elvis Donaghy thing was only a small part of everything I had going on, and I didnt want anyone to find out. Netflix, to me, is the next iteration of that., Donaghy published a book in June 2010, nine months before Gaming.. But he'd remained close friends after high school with both Donaghy and Battista, who, in turn, were never that close with each other. ", In the early 2000s, Rush went on to explain, the NBA undertook a wholesale revision of its refereeing guidelines, changes that would naturally lead to the entire NBA referee corps calling a greater volume of fouls, at least initially. "Uh, no.") "If what you're telling me is true," Kulle said he told Donaghy, "you're gonna be rich.". Battista arrived with a thick stack of $100 bills bound in a rubber band -- $2,000 for the agreed-upon fee and $3,000 as a sweetener. And what more did you want? This scandal involved two childhood friends, Jimmy Battista, the gambler, and Tommy Martino, the go-between, who carried the money and information between Donaghy and Battista. A few weeks later, four days after the Post story broke, David Stern gave his first news conference. Only a fool, Dr. Sean Patrick Griffin wrote, would have ignored Battistas ridiculously obvious wagering success.. Rush recalls watching maybe 10 such games. Battista had such a network. They were among his biggest brokerage clients and most trusted outs. Had Battista gone to trial, Donaghys character would have come under immense scrutiny. Malloy, Crawford and Callahan all attended Delaware County's Cardinal O'Hara High School, Donaghy's alma mater -- a cradle within a cradle. Based on information from Tommy Martino, among others, there were reasons to suspect Donaghy had money on the vast majority of his games during the fateful 2006-07 season, from the very beginning until as late as April 11 -- 65 games in all. His picks were winning at an 88 percent clip, totally unheard of in sports betting for any sustained period of time. On Feb. 22, 2019, the NBA issued a statement in response to the ESPN story on the Donaghy scandal: "The Tim Donaghy matter concluded over a decade ago with a full investigation by the federal government, Donaghy's termination from the NBA, and his conviction for criminal acts. But the genesis of their falling-out occurred when Donaghy was still making the rounds to promote the book, according to documents filed in court as part of the lawsuit. One expert offers tips to brew the perfect cup at home. Among them: Who made the real money? IT WASN'T JUST Donaghy who tried to convince the FBI that he didn't fix games. Joseph "Joe Vito" Mastronardo Perhaps this is why the men who formed Battista's loose, disorderly investor group, the men who were "on the ticket," have, for all these years, remained in the shadows. "If you're going to ask me if I would do it differently now, the answer is yes. The play claims that his strict, god-fearing family caused him to rebel when he was younger, but he wound up going out with the wrong crowd. In the end, Rush felt there was no need to relay his observations to the Pedowitz people. 2 documentary Operation Flagrant Foul, on the 2007 gambling scandal centered on former NBA referee Tim Donaghy, is how it's not just about Donaghy. I accepted because Im an academic; we argue for a living. After Donaghy, the NBA put into place a host of new measures designed to detect any nascent game-fixing schemes. But the person who knows more about the case than anyone isnt on the show and wont be watching. but my gambling instincts were taking over, and I was perversely excited.. They had possibly just stumbled on the ultimate edge. The effort to hide it was in vain. Twice, Griffin said, he appeared in a television studio to partake in documentaries in which Donaghy was supposed to appear. Martino did recall Donaghy telling him that certain games would be unfixable. They just march on, say whatever they want, anyway. And then one afternoon the case agent came into my office. When presented with that data, ESPN statisticians crunched the numbers and revealed: The odds that Tim Donaghy would have randomly made calls that produced that imbalance are 6,155-to-1. His body turned numb. It wasn't long before people wanted in on the action. Watching games for Pedowitz, Rush noticed the same propensity to call "literally interpreted" fouls in situations where they were not warranted -- ones that ran counter to the flow of the game. I would not have gone to brief Stern," Scala told me. "You've got to arrange a meeting with Donaghy," Battista said. Everything from drugs to money to gambling was prevalent in the area he served, which ultimately kickstarted his love affair with the latter as well he actually grew into a thriving bookmaker. Battista envisioned the arrangement lasting for 20 years. He then did the same set of calculations for the other two referees on the floor in each of Donaghy's games. The FBI investigated the disgraced refs claims of other NBA officials involvement, with negative results. ", Said another: "Did I assume he was fixing the games? It hadn't taken long to deduce. It was January 2007. 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