A fourth man has been arrested in the sports betting scandal that got Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter expelled from the NBA
A fourth man was arrested Friday in the sports betting scandal that got Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter expelled from the NBA. Ammar Awawdeh, 32, turned himself in following the arrests of three co-defendants earlier this week. A court complaint accuses Awawdeh of pressing an NBA athlete, identified only as “Player 1,” to resolve gambling debts by leaving games early.
The league found that he bet on NBA games in which he didn't play and pulled himself out of at least one so that a wager would pay over $1 million for a bettor who had been tipped off. Awawdeh and his co-defendants — Timothy McCormack, Mahmud Mollah and Long Phi Pham — used prior knowledge of Player 1's plans so they or their relatives could place lucrative bets on his performance in Jan. 26 and March 20 games, according to the complaint.
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