A Different Look at the NBA Betting Scandal

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Retired Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins interviews Sean Griffin, author of Gaming the Game: The Story behind the NBA Betting Scandal and other nonfiction crime-related books. Sean has a different take on the NBA referee in the eye of the storm, Tim Donaghy. After the recent Netflix documentary, Sean started speaking out about how the media takes everything Tim Donaghy claims as the truth. Sean published his book based on an examination of the date, and he came to different conclusions. For example, Sean believes the mafia never knew who Donaghy was, destroying the claim that he was afraid to stop giving his picks to his favorite bookie. Sean believes that Tim Donaghy did make some dubious referee calls on games he bet on the outcome. This is a must-listen interview if you are interested in the NBA and the huge gaming interests surrounding these contests. For example, did you know some gamblers can bet large enough amounts in China or Japan to influence the line? Then after they know they have changed the line arbitrarily, they make their real bets in the United States. One of these gamblers told Sean about the Mafia, “We are the whales; they are the fish.” Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwireClick here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome all you wiretappers out there.
0:02.1	Got a show today this kind of topical.
0:04.8	I hope you'll be interested in this.
0:07.3	I think a lot of you guys like professional basketball.
0:11.7	And I bet a lot of you guys, if they haven't watched Netflix story on Tim Godagee,
0:19.5	I can never pronounce that guy. So Tim got a guy, the referee,
0:26.8	the NBA referee who, you know, really had a stellar career. He went up into the NBA
0:34.3	quick and he seemed like he's a pretty personal guy and but he got caught up in
0:39.6	some gambling and some betting was betting on his own games and and he has his own story. I tried to
0:45.4	get him on the show a year or so ago and he talked to me, but he was, you know, I think he already
0:50.2	thought he was too big for me and I know he thinks he's too big now, uh, you know, he's one of those guys and, and he got involved indirectly. I don't know if he
0:58.8	knew he was involved with the mob, but, but the mob was making money off of him. And, and so we have
1:04.8	a guest who's been on the show before, talked about the black mafia in Philadelphia was really
1:09.4	an interesting story. If you, if you didn't see it or you don't remember exactly, go back and just search in my,
1:16.2	on the podcast or online or whatever, Sean Patrick Griffin and the black mafia in Philadelphia,
1:22.9	and you'll find that show.
1:24.2	So this is Sean Patrick Griffin of Philadelphia.
1:28.9	And I can't remember all your credentials. I'm going to let you say them, Sean. Welcome. Thanks for having me back, Gary.
1:34.1	I am currently a professor of criminal justice at the Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina,
1:38.6	and my law enforcement background is meager compared to many of your guests and to you. I was
1:44.0	only a Philadelphia police
1:45.2	officer. I wasn't a detective or anything but I come from a cop family. My brother is still a homicide
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