NY Times · Mar 6, 2019
Defendants Receive Lenient Sentences in College Basketball Corruption Case
Bebeto Mathews and Seth Wenig/Associated Press
A federal judge in Manhattan on Tuesday sentenced three men in a college basketball fraud case to between six and nine months in prison, lenient sentences that the judge said were nonetheless important to deter the funneling of money to the families of college basketball prospects — an N.C.A.A. violation that a jury found last year also constituted a felony.
The sentences come ahead of a second trial next month at which more may be revealed about how widespread the rot in recruiting has spread.
