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Tim Donaghy, an NBA referee from 1994 to 2007, bet on games he officiated and passed inside information about player conditions and player-referee relationships to bookies using coded language. He received a total of $300,000 for his picks, starting at $2,000 per correct pick and rising to $5,000. He pleaded guilty to wire fraud and transmitting wagering information in August 2007.
Tim Donaghy was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison on the 29th of July, 2008, by Judge Carol Amon of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. He served 11 months at a federal prison camp in Pensacola, Florida, and was released on the 4th of November, 2009, after serving the remainder of his sentence in Hernando County.
Tim Donaghy officiated 772 regular season games and 26 playoff games during his 13 seasons in the NBA, from 1994 to 2007. He also spent five years officiating Pennsylvania high school basketball and seven seasons in the Continental Basketball Association before joining the NBA.
Donaghy's two co-conspirators were Thomas Martino, described as his lifelong best friend, who acted as the middleman, and James Battista, a former owner of a sports bar in Havertown, Pennsylvania, who was one of the bookies. Both were high school classmates of Donaghy. Battista received a 15-month sentence and Martino received 366 days.
On the 10th of June, 2008, Donaghy's attorney filed a court document claiming that two referees had deliberately extended the 2002 Western Conference Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Sacramento Kings to seven games. The Lakers won Game 6, attempting 18 more free throws than the Kings in the fourth quarter. Federal authorities investigated the claims and found no evidence to support them.
Donaghy began writing a memoir titled Blowing the Whistle: The Culture of Fraud in the NBA while imprisoned in Pensacola, Florida. His first publisher, Triumph Books, canceled it due to liability concerns after the NBA threatened legal action. A second publisher, VTi-Group, released the book under the title Personal Foul: A First-Person Account of the Scandal That Rocked the NBA in December 2009. Donaghy later won a $1.3 million breach of contract judgment against VTi-Group for non-payment.