Overview
- Thursday Marves Fairley pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court, admitting he paid a professional player to change his game performance and that he recruited and bribed college players in a separate point‑shaving case.
- Hours after Fairley’s plea a grand jury returned a superseding indictment that adds counts of sports bribery and honest‑services wire fraud against former guard Terry Rozier for allegedly soliciting and accepting about $100,000 to exit a March 23, 2023 Hornets game early.
- Rozier denies the charges and his lawyer says the new counts repeat arguments in a pending motion to dismiss that cites a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling narrowing the scope of federal wire‑fraud law.
- Federal prosecutors have recommended an 8–10 year sentence for Fairley and set his sentencing for February 2027, while other defendants in the wider investigation face ongoing pleas, pretrial motions and potential trials.
- The probe, which has charged more than 30 people and alleges over $10 million in illicit gains, centers on bought nonpublic information and player bribery and could force courts and sportsbooks to clarify how fraud law applies to legal betting markets.