Several DePaul basketball players have been charged by federal authorities in a big-money point-shaving and game-fixing scheme, according to a new grand jury indictment reviewed by NBC 5 Investigates.<\/p>\n
The indictment reads like an anatomy\u00a0of a game-fixing plot, with cash being flown across the country, secret deliveries of bribes and payoffs, texted photos of cash stacks and hushed conversations to plan the plot. <\/p>\n
Several games during the 2024-25 season are being called into question by federal investigators. <\/p>\n
Among the former DePaul players named in federal charges are Jalen Terry, Da’Sean Nelson,\u00a0 and Micawber Etienne.<\/p>\n
Seventeen players from various teams are being accused of rigging college games and contests in the Chinese Basketball association.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Former college All-American Antonio Blakeney, who also played for the Chicago\u00a0Bulls, is among the players charged with throwing games for cash, according to an indictment unsealed Thursday in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Federal officials are announcing the charges on Thursday. <\/p>\n
Check back for more on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several DePaul basketball players have been charged by federal authorities in a big-money point-shaving and game-fixing scheme, according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,5974],"class_list":{"0":"post-538682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-depaul-university"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115900093913124246","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}