The Globe would later admit that they were wrong in reporting that Bowie was involved, after he was not implicated nor investigated by the federal government for any role in the scandal. No source was given for this claim, with Streater's last appearance for the team occurring in the 197778 season, but this claim remained for more than five years, resulting in a number of media sites including Bleacher Report, ESPN and Yahoo News erroneously naming him as a point-shaver.[5]. But I found out that I wouldnt be allowed to leave the United States because the government was going to bring me to trial.. Needing an inside man, the brothers wanted to recruit Rick Kuhn, a high school friend of Rocco who was entering his senior year at Boston College and was expected to be a key member of the 197879 Eagles team. Walgreens settles West Virginia opioid lawsuit for $83 million. We get footage of the games and the scheme continued, but no one knew just how much the fixers made. His testimony essentially corroborated that of Hill, who went into witness protection. When he first stepped on the hallowed parquet floor at the legendary Boston Garden, where B.C. They all have different versions of the story, but regardless games are going to start being fixed. The Perla brothers were small-time gamblers who saw the upcoming 197879 Boston College Eagles basketball season as a perfect opportunity to earn a lot of money. A witness is interviewed and says, The rat one.. I dont know what went down because I wasnt involved. The fact that I went to court and fought for my name, that I stood up for myself and cleared my name, that I was exonerated and acquitted, its a travesty that Im still associated with this., My name is indelibly linked to it, Cobb continued. It was a path that led them to Hills underworld higher-up, Jimmy Burke (the Robert DeNiro character in Goodfellas). indictments charged against them. I admitted to receiving that money, and spending it. Supreme Court mulls questions about students' accessibility rights. It had to cost around $200,000 at the time to defend me.. Same here, and yet when they did their list of greatest sports scandals a few weeks back (when Miami broke) they didn't have it on there the first day. The police have Henry Hill as an informant in hopes that he will have information on his boss, Jimmy Burke and other mobsters involved in the Lufthansa robbery, where five million dollars was stolen in the heist. The test run for the scheme proved unsuccessful when Boston College's team established an early lead and ultimately won the game by nineteen points. Sweeney agreed to cooperate claiming he was forced to help with the fix, Kuhn came clean about the whole operation, and Cobb was cut from the Nets after the FBI visited him despite him not having any real information. I was shining at the camp. Theyd taken my passport and I had to stay here and face these charges, said Cobb. Teammate Rick Kuhn, a former minor league baseball player with connections to small-time Pittsburgh mobsters, conspired with the mobsters to initiate the point-shaving Hill revealed his involvement in the point-shaving scheme, offering to relate the full story if federal officials would guarantee him full immunity and would agree to intercede on his behalf to convince state officials to drop the drug charges pending in state court. Sweeney has won several FIMBA tournaments as a player in the 50-plus division. Rocco and Tony Perla were giving money to Rick Kuhn. Testifying for the defense, Boston College basketball Coach Tom Davis said at no point during the 1978-79 season did he notice any of his players giving anything less than a 100 percent effort. He dreamed of walking away from Boston College at seasons end as one of the schools most revered sons before embarking on what he hoped would be an accomplished, financially rewarding career in the NBA. This is Part II of The Shadow League's feature story on former Boston College basketball player Ernie Cobb. His testimony continued terribly, he was a nervous wreck, he was rambling about unnecessary information and he couldnt even look in Burkes direction. Fellow player Michael Bowie begins to ask questions, but Sweeney argues that they are still winning. I have suffered. He hugged his tearful mother before walking out into the hallway for a few moments. The Boston College case arose out of the Lufthansa investigation. I cooperated willingly, and Im glad I did, Sweeney says. The audience learns about Boston Colleges rival Holy Cross and its huge significance to the players and the alumni. I was a senior in high school when Ernie Cobb was a senior at Boston College and Id heard that he was a very good player, said Lemuel Mills, a Boston area hoops aficionado, coach, community mentor and historian. Of course, of course I was upset, but what could I do? Intentional point shaving on the floor was never proven, and if Hill hadnt later confessed the scheme to prosecutors after getting busted for his other crimes, the whole ordeal might have passed without notice. Rick Kuhn was an older player who was friends with Sweeney and a tough, street smart kid with a different upbringing than Sweeney. [3] Kuhn was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment,[4] later reduced to 28 months. The scheme continued to work successfully in the December 23 game against UCLA. My parents have suffered. Hill reportedly cleared over $100,000 ($373,400 today) and bettors higher up the line were said to have made up to $250,000 ($933,400 today). After he interviewed him, he fell in love with him and told me, Hes innocent. And now, here I was on that same floor, pumped sky high, giving my defender buckets! He killed people. For over 30 years, hes been living in Clearwater, Florida, married to his college sweetheart. I hadnt seen Ernie for several years, Jack Hennessey, a psychologist at Boston College that had served as an informal academic advisor during Cobbs days as a student, told the New York Times in April of 1984. Rocco Perla and Kuhn were high-school classmates. They greet each other like old friends; there is no bitterness between them. He tried to subsist as a substitute teacher, and even caddied at the Fairview Country Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, the affluent suburbs where hed previously been arrested for stealing bikes as a kid. After the four-week trial in 1981, Jimmy Burke was sentenced to 20 years in prison, while Paul Mazzei and Tony Perla were sentenced to ten. I took every single practice and every single game seriously, said Cobb. And in that article in Sports Illustrated, Henry Hill says, The word came back that Cobb was enthusiastic. The key phrase there is The word came back. I dont know what Rick Kuhn was telling Henry Hill or the Perla brothers. Kuhn agreed to participate, and brought in his teammate Jim Sweeney.[1]. He didn't want to be bothered with these kids anymore." But Im so proud of him because he picked his life back up and made the best of it. A crime story, about the mafia fixing a college basketball game, alleged innocent college basketball kids, and involves small time bookies in Pittsburgh, its really a story of betrayal and people turning on one another, and all being done in the name of greed. Director Joe Lavine. When he was implicated in the scandal, I was shocked.. Even with the not guilty verdict, he still lost all hope of going to the NBA. He said Hill told him he was backed by powerful interests in New York, and he was afraid of what might happen to him if he refused to cooperate. You gotta tell me the truth, because I gotta know how to go on this?. I was having a lot of success, we were turning around the fortunes of the program and I was getting a lot of press in the Boston Globe and area newspapers. She also recalled Kuhn saying that Cobb was too into his own game to cooperate with the betting thing, but the New York gangsters were adamant about getting him involved. Mazzei and the Perlas were particularly hopeful that Hill would enlist the support of his associate, James Burke, to finance the payments to the players and to set up a network of bookmakers who were in on the scheme. 197879 Boston College Eagles basketball season, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, "Key figures in the BC point shaving scandal", "James (Jimmy the Gent) Burke, Gangster, 64, of 'Wiseguy' Fame", "Kuhn Gets 10-Year Sentence In BC Point-Shaving Case", "Guilt by Wikipedia: How Joe Streater Became Falsely Attached To The Boston College Point Shaving Scandal", 1946 NFL Championship Game bribery scandal, 2009 Melbourne Football Club tanking scandal, 2012 Olympics women's doubles disqualifications, 2002 Winter Olympics figure skating scandal, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=197879_Boston_College_basketball_point-shaving_scandal&oldid=1112461833, 197879 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, College basketball controversies in the United States, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 26 September 2022, at 12:41. BOSTON - NOVEMBER 17: Rick Kuhn (#35) during Boston College men's basketball's 1978-1979 season. The next step in the saga is how these players get connected to the mob. But I dont feel any bitterness toward the prosecution. It would fit with ESPN, which reports sports but also has an underlying self-deprecating humor, is basically his pitch. While Hill was trying to bury Burke, Sweeney was trying to bury Kuhn. After perhaps his greatest moment during the preseason, when he had that outstanding game against the Celtics right before the regular season tipped off, Cobb was relaxing in his hotel room when he heard a knock at the door. The final player involved in the fix, Rick Kuhn, is introduced. But that had nothing to do with shaving points., At the time, I was nave, Cobb continued. won by only two points and I had a lot of losing money down on this game. Jim Sweeney was not charged. Danois, Alejandro. won the gangsters some serious money by falling short of the spread. Rocco comes up to me and says, Hey, sometimes I bet on games and I wanna know how you think you guys are gonna do against Stonehill and Bentley? said Cobb. NEW YORK -- Former Boston College basketball player Rick Kuhn, jailed for his 1981 conviction in a point-shaving scandal, has asked for a reduction of his 10-year I called my buddy Frank Melzer, who was an attorney, said Alswanger. In 2014, the ESPN-produced 30 for 30 series debuted Playing for the Mob,[6] the story about how Hill and his Pittsburgh associates, and several Boston College basketball players, perpetrated the point-shaving scheme during the 197879 season, an episode briefly mentioned in the movie Goodfellas. Tennessee church holding prayer as FAA investigates plane crash that killed 4 members. The scheme was conceived by Rocco Perla and his brother Anthony in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1978. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- The husband accused in the New Year's Day disappearance of Massachusetts mother of three Ana Walshe made a series of Internet searches about dismembering bodies and disposing of them, prosecutors said in court Wednesday. By my junior year, it was show-time, said Cobb. After Cobb was not charged, he thought he was finally past the sordid affair. Convinced that Cobb was innocent after his mentee walked him through everything that had transpired, and certain that he was being used by the federal government to send more organized crime figures to prison, Alswanger began working the phones. After narrowly missing the NBA - Cobb was among the last players cut by the New Jersey Nets in 1980 - he played professionally in Israel and later became a high school coach in Phoenix. There were a lot of rich kids who went to Boston College. I was focused in the moment. The 197879 Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal involved a scheme in which members of the American Mafia recruited and bribed several Boston College Eagles men's basketball players to ensure the team would not win by the required margin (not cover the point spread), allowing gamblers in the know to place wagers against that team and win. I had my own place to live and all the food I wanted to eat. But I never agreed to fix any games or shave any points. The campus was so beautiful. Kuhn would be responsible for ensuring, by his play on the court, that Boston College fell short of the point spread. The 80-minute documentary tells how BC forward Rick Kuhn conspired with two of his hoodlum friends from Pittsburgh to bet against the Eagles. He graduated from Woodworth Public School in 1985 and earned a bachelors degree from University of Sioux Falls. Although a participant in the scheme, Hill was granted immunity from prosecution and testified as a government witness. I felt like, You put my name out there, so let me clear my name! When they investigated me, I told them straight up about the $1,000 that Rocco Perla had given me. Only on occasion does the scandal come up. Jimmy Burke goes berserk and shatters his own TV. She helped tutor me, and encouraged me through some rough spots. Early on, before the season got underway, Cobb says that he was approached by a man from Pittsburgh named Rocco Perla, who hed seen hanging around campus with his teammate, senior forward Rick Kuhn. ESPN's latest 30 for 30 film tackles the Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal. At trial in 1981, the government's case consisted primarily of the testimony of Hill and three other witnesses: Sweeney and Joseph Beaulieu, both Boston College players, and Barbara Reed, a 23-year-old nurse who lived with Kuhn during the 197879 Eagles season. So I didnt even go on trial with Kuhn and the mobsters that put the whole thing in motion.. I was reading about the Boston College point-shaving scandal of the late 70s and I was wondering whatever became of Rick Kuhn in his later life. I just thank God there is justice.. Being at Boston College, when I first got there, was so amazing, said Cobb. Kuhn told people at Boston College later He talks about the fix and how Jimmy Burke participated even though he wasnt the ringleader. Rocco Perla received a four-year sentence and Rick Kuhn was sentenced to a ten-year bid as well, which was later reduced to 28 months. Rocco Perla was sentenced to four years' imprisonment. I dont know if they recognize it, but B.C. Sweeney claims that hes heard network execs at a sports business conference in Florida express a desire for such a character to pop up with occasional humorous commentary. My girlfriend and I bought a new stereo, television and some furniture. Its gonna be no contest. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- The Justice Department Wednesday filed a complaint against a sheriff's department in Cumberland County, Tenn., alleging it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act when firing an officer with an opioid use disorder. When the story first broke, it said that Michael Bowie and I were the ones implicated, said Cobb. Jason Avant Chief Operating Officer at ASTAR, Inc. They would also ensure protection for the enterprise in the event that the unsuspecting bookmakers, all of whom had toughs at their disposal to collect unpaid debts, discovered they were being swindled. Hill and Burke both were convicted of extortion in 1972 in Florida and have been prime suspects in the Dec. 11, 1978, robbery of almost $9 million from the Lufthansa Cargo Terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport. Interim Application of Copyright and Trademark Registration in Cochin. Bookmakers, on seeing the heavy action, moved the line as high as twelve to discourage bets on the favorite (St. John's) and attract more bets on the underdog. Kuhn's sentence was the heaviest ever imposed on a college player convicted of point shaving. Ernie, dont lie to me, Alswanger instructed him. will air the latest installment of its acclaimed 30 For 30 series with a look back at the infamous Boston College basketball point shaving scandal from the 1978-79 season. Towards the end of the film, we see Hill and Mizzou, one of the people Hill snitched on, are meeting at a restaurant 30 years later. They kept saying that they liked the idea of just shaving points and not blowing the games." Boeing's fuel-efficient aircraft design wins $425 million award from NASA. But he did take money. would play a few games each year, Cobb was awash with emotions. They had Kuhn approach Ernie Cobb, the leading scorer on the team, but it has never been proven if Cobb agreed to cooperate. This is a BETA experience. Two Years Into A Six-Year Contract, The New York Yankees Hope For A Fully Healthy DJ LeMahieu, As Premier League Clubs Court Lindstrom, 22, He Wants To Make History For Club And Country, Paige Spiranac Expands Her Budding Social Media Empire. Were you shaving points for the mob?. Barbara Reed, 25, Kuhn's former girlfriend who was living with him at the time, testified that Kuhn uncharacteristically began buying her presents -- a stereo set, a television set and jewelry -- during the winter of 1978-79. Rocco has a vague conversation with Cobb over winning certain games, but both sides wont admit to knowing the extent to which he was involved. Everybody testified against him. Kuhn's attorney, Gary Zimmerman, said his client recognized the seriousness of his crimes and that his stiff jail sentence 'was a stern warning to other college athletes.'. Hill brought in his mentor, Jimmy Burke, to finance the operation and set up a network of bookies who could advance the financial potential of the scheme. I had a relentless type of game.. On Friday morning, March 23rd, the jury came back with a unanimous innocent verdict for Ernie Cobb, exonerating him of all charges. But what was I going to do, take it to court?It was here that they began telling Perla we would have to have Cobb. The Boys of Dunbar, A Story of Love, Hope and Basketball. They were touting me as the next sub-6-footer to have an impact in the NBA. (In some of the Boston College games cited, the Eagles were underdogs and lost by more than the point spread.). I just had to be alone, Cobb told the reporters afterwards. But by his sophomore year, when he was inserted into the starting lineup, it was apparent that the 5-foot-11 scorer brought a dimension to the Boston College squad that it sorely needed when he averaged 17.4 points per game. Hes now happily at work on his latest project, a sports cartoon character named Mike (as in microphone) that appears on his daily sports blog and in 35 comic books downloadable on Amazon. 30 Years After His Exoneration, Former BC Hoops Star Ernie Cobb Is Still Fighting to Clear His Name Pt. less serious, the aftermath was compared to the fallout that would occur today. Visser became the NFLs first female beat writer in 1976, when she was assigned by the paper to cover the New England Patriots. Rick Kuhn, James Burke, Rocco and Anthony Perla, and Paul Mazzei now face up to thirty years in prison possibly to twenty NEW YORK -- Former Boston College basketball player Rick Kuhn, jailed for his 1981 conviction in a point-shaving scandal, has asked for a reduction of his 10-year prison sentence. Sweeney has mostly shunned requests for interviews and book projects over the years, but decided to put his trust in documentary filmmaker Joe Lavine - a fellow native of Trenton, N.J. - who directed the piece for ESPN. In practice, he was the lunatic who his teammates sucked their teeth and rolled their eyes at when he told the coaches that they needed to run more sprints after an exhausting practice. Holy Cross wins by two causing the mobsters to lose hundreds of thousands. He turned to me and said, Coach, Im glad youre sticking up for your kid. Murder by Contract orThe Logical Lethality of The American Dream. The February 6 game against St. John's was a "push" (winning back exact bets), as the syndicate neither won nor lost when St. John's prevailed 8576, the exact point spread (nine) the bookmakers had offered.[i]. He graduated on time with a degree in sociology. The abbreviated version of events reads like this:the Perlas brought in a Pittsburgh hood named Paul Mazzei, who contacted his friend Henry Hill, an associate of New Yorks Lucchese crime family that had befriended him during a stretch in federal prison. Later, Mazzei hears that Kuhn is able to start fixing games. His lifes dream of making it to the NBA, which was where he belonged, was taken away from him. The mobsters Paul Mazzei and Henry Hill met in a nearby jail stayed in touch after serving their time. In this case, while the spread was as high as 5, the syndicate was able to lay just 2 points, and therefore pushed when Holy Cross won by 2. Several college coaches, contacted at the time that news of the investigation broke, said point shaving -- when the favored team tries to win by less than the point spread -- in basketball is almost impossible to detect and that there is no way of telling how much, if any, point shaving goes undetected. The jury is scared to be connected to this case because Burke was so powerful and violent in the mob. On June 23rd, 1983, more than four years after hed played his final game at Boston College, Ernie Cobb was indicted and charged with taking cash bribes to alter the outcomes of games against Harvard, Rhode Island and Fordham. I had everything I could have possibly asked for. Rocco says Sweeney told him he missed it to avoid a pair of cement shoes. So, in very basic terms, if B.C. The distinguished paper later retracted the story. The phone calls flooded in from his friends and family in Boston and Connecticut, with despaired voices on the other end asking, Did you do this? But my high school coach got his friends to take my case, pro bono. Mazzeis connection to Kuhn was through fellow gangsters Rocco and Tony Pearla. Although Cobb and Sweeney received money and were a part of the scandal, the FBI did not prosecute them in the first round and were primarily focused on getting the mobsters. Just by being there, Id already reached success beyond my wildest dreams. Kuhn explains to Sweeney that they are both going to get killed after not successfully fixing a game against Providence. This scene gives the audience insight into the type of person Henry Hill was and how hard it was to testify against someone like Burke. I was nervous because I didnt know what was going to happen. Henry Hill avoided going to prison, and he went off into the sunset of the governments Witness Protection Program, said Alswanger. Other notable players selected in that draft included Sidney Moncrief, Bill Laimbeer, Bill Cartwright, Mark Eaton and Jim Paxson. Enraged by their gambling loss, the Perla brothers, along with Mazzei, Burke, and Hill, decided to recruit additional Eagles players to enhance their control over the outcome of the games. He made other African-American ballers feel like they could go there and really showcase what they could do on a national level. The whole team is confused as Sweeney hides on the bench. @ChristSchool. This past August, the International Maxibasketball Federation (FIMBA), the governing body for global organized basketball tournaments for age groups beginning at 30, named him as its USA Ambassador. The Texas woman who owned the ring thought she had misplaced it, but it was actually stolen and admitted as evidence in a 1986 drug trial. The government won convictions against Burke, the Perlas , Mazzei and Kuhn thanks in part to testimony from Sweeney, who was neither charged nor offered immunity. Overall, the real end to the Boston College point-shaving scandal is the trial, the main conflict of the film. The problem was Cobb. Dean Smith, basketball coach at the University of North Carolina and the president of the National Association of Basketball Coaches, said last night it is standard procedure for coaches to speak to team members about the possibility of point-shaving overtures and to encourage them to report any efforts to persuade them to manipulate scores. Kuhn grew up to be 6-foot-8, and signed a minor league contract with the Cincinnati Reds right after finishing high school. Follow this author to stay notified about their latest stories. Apparently, someone called into the online editor the second to inform them of the "miss." For Cobb, the result was far worse. The court papers said Kuhn of Swissvale, Pa., has agreed to testify against former teammate Ernie Cobb, 27, a basketball player from Stamford, Conn. Cobb has pleaded innocent to a charge of conspiring to commit sports bribery,a charge stemming from the point-shaving scandal. WASHINGTON, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- The Supreme Court hears Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools to rule on financial compensation for a deaf student who was not provided proper learning support. I thought he might have been a student, because he was young and I saw him hanging around Rick Kuhn all the time. (Rick Kuhn, Photo Credit: bostonglobe.com). Sweeney knows hell probably never completely escape the association to the scandal, something he learned to live with years ago. The government presented telephone records showing evidence of extensive communications between the conspirators during the 197879 season and records provided by Western Union and various hotels which further corroborated government testimony. The Perla brothers were small-time gamblers who saw the upcoming 197879 Boston College Eagles basketball season as a perfect opportunity to earn a lot of money. Sweeney says that he and Maura have almost recouped their costs in launching the character. He said he was brought in on the deal for his ability to maximize profits through his contacts in the gambling world. Sweeney hears Tony explain that this is the grand finale, Tony claims he never threatened him. 197879 Boston College basketball point-shaving scandal. Kuhn tells Sweeney that the mobsters in New York and Pittsburgh want this win and that this will be the last fix. Do you recognize him? And my answer every time was, No! I didnt recognize any of those mobsters because I had never met them. Keeping Score: Close Shave. Greenfield Recorder, Greenfield Recorder, 27 Apr. Edward A. McDonald, who coincidentally had graduated from Boston College in 1968 and who had played briefly on the basketball team, prosecuted the case.[2]. The very next day, the Nets cut me., When the F.B.I. Their strategy was effective Boston College, a five-point favorite, covered the spread with a 9080 win over Connecticut. It wasnt an absolute disaster but it was a cousin. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. They treated me great. Sometimes, B.C. I saw Ernie score 28 points against the Celtics in one of the final pre-season games when he was with the Nets, said Alswanger, Cobbs former high school coach. Everything Id worked so hard for was coming to fruition.. The goal for making some real money is to get the character a TV gig with ESPN, NBC Sports, or another major sports network. Hes also jumping on the scandals latest publicity wave to tout Mike, the SpongeBob-like sports cartoon character whose online life includes links to the NFL Shop, NBA Store and other merchandise outlets. 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