Both.
He's being put in a state of POSSIBLY being beaten. In his sentence, there is no state mandated beating which must take place, otherwise they would've removed him. Wait, they did. Does he deserve it? Yes. If you try to take the lives of other people, damn right a slap on the wallet, and a light time restriction is almost a joke.
If consequences are light, people will continue wrong doing. It isn't as though he is losing his hand for stealing. Lets be real here.
His monetary punishment is warranted although it cannot be known his actual true gains. Additionally, he must serve for reasons already stated.
He should be happy he isn't getting pounded in the ass.
I have to go workout. I'll be back to continue this later.
You don't lie to people in prison. If he claimed he was in a New York mob, i'm surprised he didn't get killed.
Fascinating stuff. In my mind, there seems to be so much more that needs to come out of that series and Game 6 in particular. I have a su ious feeling Stern would never really share the findings the league may/may not of found in the investigation after the Donaghy incident.
As far as the prision beating is concerned, if you go spoutin at the mouth to G-men about anything to do with organized crime, you are gonna get hurt. It just goes to show you. The mob can get to anyone, anywhere. If Donaghy writes any kind of a memoir, he may have to go into hiding to stay alive.
He's got the mafia and Stern waiting for him. The guy doesn't have a chance.
i guess salvatore has guys on the inside
I have mixed feelings on Donaghy. On one hand he was a cheater and a criminal but on the other hand he proved that the NBA is rigged. I wish he would have given the names of NBA refs that are just as dirty as he was. I also thought it was funny and a little sad how much Stern tried to sweep Donaghy under the rug.
who the is against Tim Donaghy and defending the NBA?
If anything Tim helped us fans finally see the corruption within the NBA that they always denied.
Without Tim , the NBA would still be bending all of us over.
Can't wait to read his book. He will expose everyone.
Last edited by spurscenter; 06-11-2009 at 01:37 AM.
The Feds are watching this finals like a hawk. The NBA has been exposed
Tim Donaghy was attacked by another inmate claiming he had ties to the NY mob. Donaghy was threatened that he would be shot in the head and his knee caps would be broken. Donaghy suffered knee injuries that were confirmed via x-ray and an MRI taken 3-4 months after the attack. The attacker was removed from the facility and locked down in a higher level facility. The prison officials did not refer the attack to investigative authorities - they chose to handle it internally.
This dude is in trouble when he gets released....
I'm not sure that's true. I think that Donaghy did prove that an official who wants to can be relatively successful at manipulating games to achieve particular things and that for a time at least could do that without getting caught.
I don't think, though, that he proved the league is itself rigged. Nothing about the Donaghy caper came from the league and there's never been any objective allegation that Donaghy's work was motivated by anything other than a self-serving desire to collect on his own bets.
He brought up claims that come close to "rigging" allegations around the time of his sentencing, but a fairly detailed report issued after Donaghy went to prison basically found that: (1) he was citing to games that are commonly-relied upon by conspiracy theorists; and (2) there was no proof of any NBA involvement in directing outcomes. That either of those conclusions would have come up in a report is unsurprising. That Donaghy never seemed to seriously pursue those stories in his sentencing strikes me as a really good reason to question his assertions about them.
Here's the full article from AOL
Former Ref Donaghy Assaulted in Prison
Posted Jun 11, 2009 5:45PM By Brett Pollakoff (RSS feed)
Filed Under: NBA Referees
Tim Donaghy, the former NBA referee who had been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for betting on basketball, is scheduled to be released on June 17. But it's not because he's served his sentence; it's because of a medical condition Donaghy now has after being attacked by a fellow inmate back in November of 2008.
The Daily News had the original report, which cited a source close to Donaghy who gave them the story. But the follow-up reporting done by Deadspin turned up some details that were far more interesting.
Tim Donaghy was attacked by another inmate claiming he had ties to the NY mob. Donaghy was threatened that he would be shot in the head and his knee caps would be broken. Donaghy suffered knee injuries that were confirmed via x-ray and an MRI taken 3-4 months after the attack. The attacker was removed from the facility and locked down in a higher level facility. The prison officials did not refer the attack to investigative authorities - they chose to handle it internally.It's kind of a shame that once people are in prison they're subjected to violence by their fellow inmates, but you know how to avoid that? By not doing things that can get you sent to prison in the first place.
Not to make light of the situation, but we've all seen enough episodes of The Sopranos to know what happens when you get involved with less-than-legal characters -- you know, like the kind of guys that might help you make some money by illegally betting on NBA games that you're officiating, for instance. Once you get caught and start selling them out, well, things tend to end badly.
Donaghy will serve the remainder of his sentence in a halfway house in Florida, where he'll presumably be safe from these types of attacks -- at least until he's completely released from government custody, which is scheduled to take place on October 24. Once that happens, all bets are off.
The NBA is rigged or at least you can say it was rigged when Donaghy was officiating games. He manipulated games that he officiated so he could make a profit. That's proof right there that the NBA was rigged when he was a ref. Stern is a dumbass when he said that the NBA is a clean sport and that Donaghy was rogue. If there's one dirty ref, then I'm sure there's several.
Wtf? I'm against Donaghy AND the NBA. Both help to degrade the integrity of basketball (and are claiming ratings triumphs now that their darling franchises are back in the finals) with absolutely no thought about the fans.
That's like saying that because one kid in a family is a criminal the others are likely to be criminals, too.
Donaghy proved that HE could rig games. He didn't prove -- or at least hasn't yet proved -- that the league was complicit in his efforts or even that the league knew anything about it. And he certainly hasn't proven that other officials were doing similar things in calling games, regardless of motivation.
I think people who want to believe (or choose to believe) that the NBA is rigged see Donaghy as all the proof they need. But there's no logical connection between an official who gambled on games and an overt effort by the league itself to ensure certain outcomes, which is what saying "the NBA is rigged" implies to me.
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