US
Supreme Court Says College
Athlete Pay Ban Violates
Antitrust After SDNY Convictions
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon, thread
SDNY
COURTHOUSE, June 21 – While
the US
Attorney for
the Southern
District of
New York urged
and got
"time served"
leniency
for Adidas "black
ops" operative Thomas
Gassnola and then
on September
12 for briber turned
government
witness Munish
Sood, on
October 4
Merl
Code got a three
month
sentence,
consecutive to
his other
six
months.
And Nike? It has
put in a
victim's
statement for
Michael
Avenatti's
sentencing.
Now on
June 21, 2021
the U.S. Supreme
Court has
ruled that the
restrictions
on college
athletes
getting paid
violates antitrust,
decision here.
Where these
defendants
just ahead of
their times,
as the Eaze /
marijuana
sales by
credit card
defendants
Weigand and
Akhavan argue?
Inner
City Press
will continue
to cover all
these cases.
Watch this
site.
Back on
February
6, 2020 the
Assistant US
Attorney Boone
urged leniency
under Section
5K1.1 for
Martin Blazer,
cooperator.
Judge Edgardo
Ramos inquired
about the size
of restitution,
then imposed or
granted a
sentence of
time served,
albeit with
one year of
Supervised
Release, restitution
of $1,560,000 and forfeiture
of $2.35
million. Inner City
Press ran back
down to the
Nike /
Avenatti trial,
wondering when
if ever the US
Attorney's
Office will
prosecute
anyone in the
Nike scandal,
of payments to
Deandre Atyon
and Bol Bol.
Watch
this site.
As the
SDNY winds
down, and
Kansas' Bill
Self said
there is not
reason to
pursue him
even for the
administrative
violation of
failures
to supervise,
"his"
gym the
Allen
Fieldhouse
hosted a Late
Night in the
Phog midnight
madness event
with pole
dancing, a money
gun and Snoop
Dogg. So which
is it - is Bill
Self supervising,
and
responsible
for this (as
he denies),
or is he not supervising? And
others in the
outer orbits
of the college
basketball
bribery
scandal are
relaxing,
slipping away.
Not as
much immunity
as the SDNY
prosecutors
left in the
United Nations
after two convictions
of the bribers
but not the
bribees, but
almost.
On September
12 in
an
ill-attended
sentencing
before SDNY
Judge Kimba
Wood, Sood was
all smiles.
The only issue
may be
restitution
and even that
is not clear.
Judge Woods
asked the
prosecutors to
get her the
transcripts or
pleading from
the proceedings
before Judge Lewis
Kaplan.
The
government's
sentencing
submission
under Section
5K1.1 says
among other
things that
"Sood gave
Evans $2,000
in recognition of
Evans having
arranged the
meeting for
Sood with Player-1's
mother." But
it downplays
his role in
the University of
Louisville
scam,
emphasizing
that Sood only
came in
later. We hope to
have more on
this. For now, more
on Patreon here.
There is a
continuum of focus on the
Office of the U.S. Attorney
for the Southern District of
New York, ranging down from
investigations of Donald Trump
through this coming week's
narrowing NCAA
basketball corruption trial
down to the extremely narrow
prosecution of only Patrick Ho
for United Nations
bribery.
While rarely
viewed together, there is a
pattern here, examined
below. On the morning of May 6
Christian Dawkins' attorney
Steve Haney played audio clips
and said they showed Dawkins
may have paid players and
their families but did not pay
coaches. Rather, he just took
Jeff D'Angelo's money. Haney
urged the jury, to begin
deliberating later in the day,
NOT to get on Jeff D'Angelo's
yacht but rather to say bon
voyage to his, a government
agent, and the government's
case. There was Merl Code in a
conversation on wire tap about
taking D'Angelo's money by
taking up to Madison Square
Garden to meet Melo and
Porginzis, and a reference (in
the transcript) to "[U/I]
Williamson." Can you say,
Zion?
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