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Shane Hennen, the central figure in three basketball gambling scandals, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy on July 28. Legal experts say potential cooperation could expose far more defendants.
Samuel Silverman, a former DraftKings sportsbook trader who once managed the Fresno State basketball team, faces two Nevada felony counts following his May 2026 arrest. Prosecutors allege he helped coordinate a prop-bet scheme in which player Mykell Robinson deliberately underperformed in a January 2025 game, turning $2,200 into $15,950. A preliminary hearing is set for August 4.
FIFA's integrity task force monitored all 104 World Cup 2026 matches and reported zero cases of betting related match fixing, but Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset says the tournament exposed serious integrity gaps around prediction markets and political interference.
Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset says the 2026 World Cup pushed betting and in-stadium prediction markets into risky new territory, and wants a binding integrity framework built before 2030.
Adam Silver has endorsed a federal sports betting czar with subpoena powers to help leagues police integrity as arrests and guilty pleas mount. Here is what the proposal would do.
The House of Lords is weighing whether the UK should finally ratify the Macolin Convention, seven years after signing the only global anti match-fixing treaty. Here is what integrity chiefs told peers.