Late last month an ESPN Outside the Lines report linked Phil Mickelson with an illegal $3 million overseas sports betting operation. Mickelson has not been charged and is not under federal investigation, though the man who allegedly handled his money is.
A 56-year-old former sports gambling handicapper, acting as a conduit for an offshore gambling operation, pleaded guilty last week to laundering approximately $2.75 million of money that two sources told Outside the Lines belonged to Mickelson.
Gregory Silveira of La Quinta reached an agreement with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to three counts of money laundering of funds from an unnamed “gambling client” of his between February 2010 and February 2013.