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ARTICLE · 03 JULY 2019

White Collar Roundup - June 2019

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Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos of the Southern District of New York sentenced a former assistant basketball coach for the University of Arizona to three months in prison.

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Former College Coaches Find That Federal Sentencing Is No Slam Dunk

Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos of the Southern District of New York sentenced a former assistant basketball coach for the University of Arizona to three months in prison for accepting thousands of dollars in bribes in return for steering players to certain agents. The former coach, Emanuel Richardson, was the first coach in the college athletics scandal to receive a prison sentence. Richardson and two other former basketball coaches — the University of Southern California's Anthony Bland and Oklahoma State University's Lamont Evans — were arrested last fall in the Federal Bureau of Investigation's high-profile probe into corruption in college basketball. Earlier this year, Richardson pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bribery and admitted he had accepted $20,000 in meetings with National Basketball Association agent Christian Dawkins and an undercover FBI agent, in which he

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