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him! got what he deserved... don't rat out people you little !
Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy will be released from prison on June 17, 2009. Donaghy, convicted for betting on professional basketball is serving a 15-month sentence at the federal prison camp in Pensacola, Florida.
Donaghy’s release date has recently been in question due to concerns about his medical condition. Donaghy was injured during an assault in November of 2008. During the assault, another inmate claiming ties to the New York mob beat Donaghy with a heavy object. Donaghy suffered severe knee and leg injuries that will require surgery.
Donaghy will complete his prison term at a halfway house in Tampa Florida. His future plans include re-uniting with his four daughters, obtaining employment, participating in treatment for his addiction to gambling, and finishing a memoir of his 13 years in the NBA.
http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/for...n-june-17-2009
him! got what he deserved... don't rat out people you little !
That's some bad right there.
Dude is going to make quite a bit of money if he writes a book.
No sympathy. He changed the lives of millions of people by being crooked and in league with evil people. He literally robbed people of bets placed on games to make money for himself, knowing who he was associated with. He also very nearly ruined one of the largest sports in the world for his own personal gain.
As far as I'm concerned, I'm just going to turn a blind eye to whatever happens to him the rest of his life.
The mob still does that? Break people's knee caps?
That description fits a few more people besides him. I wonder what's going on with these other refs under investigation.
Good to see not everything has been outsourced.
snitches get stiches
That is unfortunate. I don't really understand this mentality...
On a side note:
It is just a game. Not something to get beaten up over. Point-shaving/fixing games is wrong. However, would that justify jail time and even getting beaten up? Seems like a more appropriate punishment would be simple banishment from the NBA, and a civil suit for damages, maybe even loss of voting rights, as he is proven to have no ingegrity. We aren't even talking about something like Vick did with his cruelty to animals... It seems like the punishment doesn't fit the crime, that’s all...
Don't count your chickens just yet. This sounds like the work of Rajib "Il Toro" Tatavari.
Let's go Tim !!!!!
Put Stern in the spotlight again
They should have cracked his skull instead.
if you're going to be a bad guy and do bad things, then dime out your fellow bad guys, don't be shocked when the bad guys retaliate
All that does is lend credence to mob-NBA ties. Sports betting is tied to David Stern.
" o, sir, I am your assigned leg-breaker. Would you please be so kind as to lie on the ground there while I do the necessary? . . . Now I will be applying this crowbar to your femur like so!"
This seems to be the latest "fad" to riches ...and finishing a memoir of his 13 years in the NBA.
1. Do something bad
2. Write a book about it
3. Profit
No, it's not just a game. It's a business. It's a very lucrative worldwide business which generates massive profits. Comprimising the integrity of such a business can have implications which result in the loss of millions, nay, billions of dollars.
lol...he's going to a "halfway" house...which means, he's gonna be coooking steak and eat some good food like in Goodfella's.
Exactly, it is a business. Wrong was done to the business. His fixing the games only affected gambling as far as I can tell, perhaps playoff seeding, and therefore certain teams got the revenue of the playoffs rather than other teams. But that money was still had, just by a different franchise. His actions changed where that money went. He didn't steel the money from the league. The league still got that money, somewhere. Instead of 1 group of gamblers getting their money, another group did.
As far as I can tell, he didn't steal people's pensions. He didn't lie on an accounting sheet. He didn't strong-arm anyone.
He just caused money to be distributed differently than it would have otherwise based on chance based industries that take serious risk to begin with.
Therefore, appropriate punishment should be a civil suit for damages, and other rights related to integrity being suspended. But jail time? I have a hard time with that.
You mean insider trading is not a crime?
Who said it wasn't a crime? I said the punishment doesn't fit the crime.
You're an idiot jacobdrj
Cheating people out of millions for your gain is a crime.
And he should have gotten more time.
Unnecessary name-calling aside, do you have a reason why you disagree with me (at least, I assume you are disagreeing with me based on your response 21_Blessings)?
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