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Donaghy was released from federal prison on November 4, 2009. Before being released he wrote a tell all book on himself and the NBA titled Personal Foul: A First-Person Account of the Scandal That Rocked the NBA. Many of the key claims Donaghy makes in the book and in related appearances have been debunked with evidence.
On November 4, 2009, Donaghy was released from prison in Hernando County after serving out the remainder of his sentence. [74] Donaghy sued VTi-Group, the publisher of his memoir, for not paying him. In June 2012, a jury found VTi liable for breach of contract. [75] Donaghy was awarded $1.3 million.
Prominent critics such as Tom Haberstroh and Bill Simmons noted this was largely Donaghy's longstanding debunked version of events and pointed out the aspects of the program which were disproven with evidence (e.g., Donaghy claims of threats and the role of organized crime, sociology of the scandal) years before "Untold' Operation Flagrant Foul" was produced, calling other aspects of the ...
Donaghy reportedly earned thousands of dollars from these bets, while the larger gambling ring profited millions. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison, and the NBA took serious reputational ...
Donaghy maintains that he only used his knowledge of the game to make bets, but he was convicted on federal charges and sentenced to two years in jail. Soccer: Serie A's Calciopoli
Levy was later sentenced to three years in prison for his work in "fixing" those NBA games, [10] though ultimately won an appeal after spending a year in prison due to a technicality. [11] Levy could be considered the first person within the NBA proper to be permanently banned from the NBA in that case following the revelation that he fixed ...
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a key figure in the sprawling corruption scandal at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the city attorney's office to nearly three years in prison.
Donaghy eventually found a new publisher, VTi-Group, that was willing to release his book. It was subsequently renamed Personal Foul: A First-Person Account of the Scandal That Rocked the NBA and released in December 2009. [2] [3] "We approached Mr. Donaghy after learning that his original publishing deal fell through.