He even contacted Murray Weiss, the Post reporter who wrote the story, to uncover the source of the leak. And Battista, perhaps surprisingly, perhaps not smartly, gave him the truth. Like so many others in Donaghy's life, Kulle and the referee would eventually have a vitriolic falling-out; at one point, Donaghy won a stalking injunction against Kulle. Per an account in New York magazine in 2015, the NBA somehow persuaded Random House to kill the book. Instead of fraud, wire fraud, and illegal gambling, Jimmy was only convicted of the latter; one count of conspiracy to transmit wagering, following a guilty plea. It's possible, through Don Best Sports, a betting information service, to pull the line-movement data for individual NBA games going back years. Around the same time as Stern's news conference, the NBA also commissioned an investigation, to be led by Larry Pedowitz, a partner with the elite New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Next, we pulled game videos for all 40 games and employed a researcher with an extensive background in officiating to watch them closely, logging all of Donaghy's and his fellow referees' foul calls. Can I maybe even invest in this thing? "I was like a pot smoker moving up to cocaine.". Where is Tim Donaghy's Friend Tommy Martino Now? In 2014, commissioner Adam Silver penned an op-ed in The New York Times advocating for legalization. According to statements Donaghy made to federal law enforcement, Battista's deal was effectively an act of extortion. With a team of four young lawyers, Pedowitz took a little over a year to conduct the probe and write up the findings in a 133-page report. How former ref Tim Donaghy conspired to fix NBA games - ESPN Crank then calculated the P value for just Donaghy's calls for the entirety of the season in question. His body turned numb. The best movers spend years compiling vast networks of clients and "outs," or counterparties, with whom the movers can trade. "How's Chuck doing?" A former gambler that was unquestionably tied to the biggest betting scandal in NBA history, is of the opinion that disgraced referee Tim Donaghy did not act alone and had help from other game officials. Then people settle in. . They'd studied his wagers. Everyone at the Curaao office, therefore, had access to Concannon's gambling account. "If it wasn't basketball season, he had a lot of time on his hands," says one of Donaghy's friends. Reportedly born in 1966, Jimmy Battista is 56 years old in 2022. "He said, 'I can't tell you. Thats when Battista started calling Donaghy Elvis, The King of prognosticating NBA games including his own, Battista told Griffin. In 2008, former NBA referee Tim Donaghy was sentenced to 15 months in prison. It touts interviews with Donaghy, Battista and Martino not Griffin. Nunn, then the director of NBA officials, was in town for the NBA summer league games held annually among the casinos, where referee candidates from the minors are assessed for possible promotion to the Show. He'd been raptly listening to the referee's story -- the gambling, the cash, the secrecy, the corruption, the endless search by human beings to gain an edge, the gross opportunism that seemed almost contagious, the almost shockingly easy fixing of a major American sport -- but now there was one big thing on Kulle's mind, and it wasn't the moral of the story. His picks were winning at an 88 percent clip, totally unheard of in sports betting for any sustained period of time.