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Whistleblower

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Whistleblower

Tenderfoot TV

Sports, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

“Whistleblower“ tells the story of the biggest scandal in American sports history. But it’s not a story about basketball; it’s a story about money – and how powerful people make problems… disappear. Coming August 27th. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

My name is Tim Donigay and on July 28th, 2008, I was sentenced to federal prison for betting on games I refereed.

0:07.0

In 2007, the NBA's worst nightmare came true.

0:12.0

Tim Donigay is a convicted felon. He's admitted that he's bet on games.

0:16.0

I told that she has rest that he was cheating and I told him he made it to obvious.

0:21.0

Tim Donigay outside of the fishroom made the call late.

0:24.0

There is clear evidence that in fact Donigay was fixing the game.

0:30.0

I'm a writer and a journalist and in 2012 I wrote an article in defense of Tim Donigay.

0:38.0

The whole strategy of the NBA was Tim is a rogue referee who did bad.

0:44.0

We think we have here a rogue, isolated criminal. It's the worst scandal ever.

0:49.0

He had to be the scapegoat.

0:52.0

Looking back at that article, I see now what I could have never dreamed of seeing then.

0:57.0

Namely, the stakes.

1:00.0

The main money is the TV money. We're talking about billions and billions of dollars.

1:04.0

This is big business and the question is, is it being acted out fairly?

1:09.0

I 100% believe that they can program the outcome of a game by who they select as the referee.

1:17.0

All of our lives were in danger. We were worried about getting killed at one point.

1:25.0

This is a story about one rogue ref.

1:28.0

According to Tim Donigay, it wasn't him that was fixing games. It was the NBA.

1:34.0

You know, the NBA game is more of a form of entertainment.

1:38.0

Once I got to understand that, I was better suited to be a ref in the NBA.

1:44.0

Coming August 27th from Tenderfoot TV, this is whistleblower.

1:52.0

There are rumors that you had two NBA referees on your payroll fixing games.

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