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Fifteen former college basketball players were among those charged by federal prosecutors in a game-fixing scandal.
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.
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.
