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A sprawling betting scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games ensnared 26 people, including more than a dozen college basketball players who tried to fix games as recently as last season, federal prosecutors said.
Fifteen former college basketball players were among those charged by federal prosecutors in a game-fixing scandal.
Federal prosecutors charged 20 people on Thursday, including 15 former college basketball players, in what they called a betting scheme to rig NCAA and Chinese Basketball Association games. Another was a trainer and former coach, one was a former NCAA player and two were described as gamblers, influencers and sports handicappers. The charges, filed in federal court in Philadelphia, include wire fraud.