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What It Takes to Catch Sports Betting Cheats

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Sports betting has become exponentially more popular and accessible, with gambling on games now legal in more than 30 states. It’s a wildly difficult industry to oversee, though, with a patchwork of legislative details in each state, and varying rules on the types of bets that are legal or not. Even who has jurisdiction over what changes when you cross state lines. Paula Lavigne took a deep dive into the private companies that sell their services for oversight and fraud detection. She explains what they do - and don’t do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Paul Levine, I called you here today because I wanted to talk about sports gambling because

0:17.0

it's something that none of us at this point, fans, media, athletes, coaches, it's something

0:23.4

that we cannot escape, right?

0:25.6

It is everywhere.

0:26.6

But the thing I haven't heard nearly as much about is the stuff that used to be synonymous

0:31.0

with the fear of this industry, the corruption, the leaking of inside information, game fixing.

0:39.0

Whose job is it now to monitor that stuff?

0:42.5

Well, that's a really good question.

0:44.2

There are a number of entities who have the ability to do it, but who's actually responsible

0:51.0

is a little bit, it's a little bit murky in terms of how it gets carried out.

1:00.8

So let me give you an example of how this can work.

1:05.6

So during a recent college football season, there was a particular bowl game that caught the

1:10.8

attention of a company called US Integrity, which is based in Las Vegas.

1:18.2

When US Integrity is a for-profit company, and it has contracts with sportsbooks and

1:23.2

leagues and conferences and colleges and others to monitor and report suspicious sports gambling

1:30.2

activity.

1:31.2

Now, the company declined to name the game, the school, the state, or the exact date on

1:36.2

which this happened, but US Integrity President Matthew Holt described how it went down like

1:45.1

this.

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