Yahoo Sports· 1h ago· 1 min read
NEW YORK — One of the few people involved in all three major federal basketball gambling probes pleaded guilty in one of them on Tuesday.
Shane Hennen, 41, was originally supposed to go before Judge Ramon Reyes at 11 a.m., but a flight delay in Cleveland postponed him by four hours.
Federal prosecutors say Hennen was part of all three cases that involve the NBA and college basketball; he participated in high-stakes poker matches that were rigged, placed bets on NBA players including Terry Rozier and Jontay Porter using inside information and recruited college basketball and Chinese Basketball Association players to shave points in games he gambled on.
Hennen pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in the rigged poker games case in a Brooklyn courtroom Tuesday.
He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and agreed to roughly $700,000 in forfeiture as…
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