Posted on 07/26/2007 3:12:12 PM PDT by Shermy
Two catholic high school chums of disgraced referee Tim Donaghy have been identified as the bookies in a gambling scandal rocking the NBA, the Daily News has learned.
But the two bet-takers apparently exaggerated their Mafia connections. "They're nobodies," a law enforcement source said.
The mob wanna-bes attended Cardinal O'Hara High School in Springfield, Pa., with Donaghy, who was a varsity standout on the school's basketball and baseball teams. Donaghy, 40, has become the focus of the federal investigation into bets he allegedly made on NBA games, including some he officiated.
The veteran referee, who earned $260,000 a year for whistling fouls on the hardwood, allegedly gave the bookies advance word on officiating crews of games they planned to take action on, the source said.
Donaghy is expected to surrender to the FBI by next week to plead guilty to gambling charges, federal sources have told The News. An educator at Cardinal O'Hara, who requested anonymity, confirmed the feds have identified two alums of the school as the bookies. He said both men graduated a couple of years ahead of Donaghy.
One of the men named by the school source refused to comment when contacted yesterday by The News.
"I'm not talking about anything," the man said. "Don't come on my property at all."
Donaghy has been holed up inside his two-story home in Bradenton, Fla., refusing to make any statements and claiming to be "the butler" when reporters knock on his door.
Known as a hothead, he apparently turned his lawn sprinklers on a freelance photographer for The New York Times yesterday, drenching the shutterbug for getting too close to the hedges outside his house.
Known as a hothead, he apparently turned his lawn sprinklers on a freelance photographer for The New York Times yesterday, drenching the shutterbug for getting too close to the hedges outside his house.
now thats funny.
40 games a year. $5,500 a game. No heavy lifting. Not bad coin. I hope he has a year gross pay saved up. Minimum. His lawyers will eat that up.
Donaghy and his buddies are low lifes.....I hope they throw the book at all of them..
Sorry it wasn't a fire hose.
i agree with you. mavs fan who lost to g/s warriors. he ref’d one of the games.
i think it is funny he or anyone else would cut the springlers on a reporter, photograher etc for being on the property especially one from the nyt.
He gave them a shower, they’ll give him a bath.
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