He recently earned his Masters Degree in Education and is currently considering pursuing a Ph.D. I feel like Ive led a remarkable life, he said. Ernie, dont lie to me, Alswanger instructed him. Just by being there, Id already reached success beyond my wildest dreams. Jan. 18 (UPI) -- A man who posed as a cannabis billionaire plead guilty Wednesday to securities fraud for lying to investors about his wealth, education and business. They showed me these pictures of these mafia guys and were asking me, Do you know him? And look what he did to the lives of those kids. Testifying for the government, Sweeney acknowledged meeting with Hill but said that although he agreed to participate in the scheme he never intended to go through with the deal. Bruce Pearl, a normal student in the class of 1982, is introduced and talks about the smart, diverse basketball players. Theyre no match for us. He told me, Well good, I plan on betting on those games and if you guys win and it turns out like that, Ill take care of you., Man, I was one of the most recognizable athletes on campus and people would come up and talk to me all the time, people I didnt know, Cobb continued. The Nets coaches were telling me, Coach, hes gonna be a great pro., I had a great camp with the Nets and was poised to make the team, said Cobb. 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. Staff. The audience gets one on one interviews with each person to see the scandal from their perspective. The six games figuring in the point-shaving case were Boston College against Providence, Dec. 6; Harvard, Dec. 16; UCLA, Dec. 23; Fordham, Feb. 3; St. John's, Feb. 6, and Holy Cross, Feb. 10. Were you shaving points for the mob?. The story breaks to the media and the massive investigation followed. The players as well as the mobsters believe that this failed fix would be their last, the players graduate and the mobsters move on. Netflix hiring flight attendant for private jet with compensation up to $385,000. 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. Hes a good person. Zimmerman also asked the court to consider Kuhn's 'crime-free background' and his cooperation with federal authorities in the Cobb case. Jimmy said he was finished. 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. The Boys of Dunbar, A Story of Love, Hope and Basketball. 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. You may opt-out by. 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. Cobb scores 8 points in the last minute of the game only to be blocked in the last seconds of the game. His testimony essentially corroborated that of Hill, who went into witness protection. Boston College was favored by twelve to thirteen points, but won the game by only a three-point margin, 8683. Burke had Hill fly to Boston on November 16, 1978, to meet with Mazzei, Kuhn, Tony Perla, and any other member of the Eagles team interested in participating in their scheme. Jim Sweeney admits that Kuhn gave him cash. 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. Whenever the Boston College scandal comes up, he tends to remind people that theres always more than one side to a story, and leave it at that. I was shining at the camp. Kuhn and two money men were 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 story read, in part, as follows: Ernie Cobb tossed in 1,760 points in a stellar basketball career at Boston College and only two other Eagles scored more. Tell me what you did and what you didnt do. It was like a paradise to me, coming from where I came from. When I think about my journey, it brings tears to my eyes. 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. But by the next summer, in 1980, he sparkled while playing for the New Jersey Nets during the pre-season. He sold copy machines and paved driveways for an asphalt company, which was ironically the same job his father found when hed relocated from North Carolina to Connecticut some twenty years earlier. 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. Ernie Cobb played professional basketball in Israel for 17 years, where he learned to speak fluent Hebrew. When Henry Hill started threatening Kuhn and Sweeney, promising that they couldnt play with broken limbs, the players, according to Hill, claimed that they were doing their best, but the scheme would never work unless Ernie Cobb was in on the fix. It wasnt an absolute disaster but it was a cousin. In early February, Boston College was scheduled to play two New York State teams, Fordham and St. John's. But its one of the most famous in sports history, to which Sweeneys name will be forever linked. I continue to feel like I have to defend myself, all these years later, even after the government tried their case against me and I was found innocent. It was a tragedy that he never got another chance to play in the NBA., Kevin Loughery never gave me a firm reason why the Nets were letting me go, said Cobb. 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. He told me to keep playing and working hard and that one day I might get another chance., When the story first broke in January of 1981, Cobb was in shock. It was all so positive.. And now, here I was on that same floor, pumped sky high, giving my defender buckets! Des., University of Florida; MArch, Harvard GSD Professional interests: My passion lies in all things design but specifically in higher education, cultural and civic projects. The narrator explains that the strength of how Henry Hills testimony is would determine if Burke was going to be convicted. Cobb was acquitted of any wrongdoing, despite Kuhn giving Cobb's girlfriend an allegedly unsolicited envelope with $1,000. Sweeney hears Tony explain that this is the grand finale, Tony claims he never threatened him. Interim Application of Copyright and Trademark Registration in Cochin. (In some of the Boston College games cited, the Eagles were underdogs and lost by more than the point spread.). Jim Sweeney was not charged. When he was implicated in the scandal, I was shocked.. All of those guys walkedin his footsteps., He was the African-American guard in the modern era of B.C. I had my own place to live and all the food I wanted to eat. You gotta tell me the truth, because I gotta know how to go on this?. When the evidence came up at the first trial, it didnt match up, but they still came after me a few years later. All because, he says, of those five crinkled $100 bills dropped at his feet one day in the locker room. I was focused in the moment. Result is the outcome of the syndicate's bets. As a backup center with limited effect on a games outcome, he won over the mobsters by bringing Ernie Cobb, the teams leading scorer, and Sweeney, the point guard who controlled the ball for much of the game, into the fold. Joe Beaulieu, the starting center on the 1978-79 Boston College team, also testified he was approached by Kuhn to participate in the plan, but he said he rejected the proposal. [3] Kuhn was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment,[4] later reduced to 28 months. On the stand during the trial, Rick Kuhns girlfriend, Barbara Reed, with whom he shared an apartment during his senior year at Boston College, testified that she overheard Kuhn and Sweeney discussing the Fordham game, saying that they had to keep the ball away from Cobb because he shot the ball all the time. We have decided to cover the most scandalous of all 30-for-30s, Playing for the Mob. I dont know if the losses can ever be made upnot the losses me and my family and friends have suffered. won the gangsters some serious money by falling short of the spread. I loved it in Israel, the fans loved me and the people were so beautiful. Burkes gang had just successfully pulled off the Lufthansa airport heist at New Yorks JFK airport, where theyd stolen an estimated $5 million in cash and $875,000 in jewels, the largest cash robbery in America at the time. But, as Sweeney points out, the government didnt need to prove that point shaving actually happened, just that a conspiracy to shave them had. Holy Cross wins by two causing the mobsters to lose hundreds of thousands. Prosecutors say man accused in wife's disappearance Googled how to dispose of a body. Kuhn went on to live a quiet life only talking about the scandal to high school students encouraging them to not make the same mistakes. 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. 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. My family has suffered. ESPN Looks Back On Boston College Point Shaving Scandal And A Player Speaks Out. Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 1 Oct. 2014, www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/2014/10/01/espn-looks-back-on-boston-college-point-shaving-scandal-and-a-player-speaks-out/#3f03989d26b8. 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. But Im so proud of him because he picked his life back up and made the best of it. They left, and that was that. indictments charged against them. Its the same crew that had a connection to BC basketball player Rick Kuhn, who hailed from the area. For added effect, ESPN landed Liotta, whose character served as a narrator in Goodfellas, to narrate its film. Copyright 2023 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. After a four-week trial, each conspirator was convicted on charges of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) conspiracy, conspiracy to commit sports bribery, and interstate travel with the intent to commit bribery. 2015, www.recorder.com/Archives/2015/01/spt-KeepingScore-GR-012415. Thats why I got into education and coaching. They couldnt stop him. Greater Boston. He was determined to prove that he could do the work, which would enable him to further chase his athletic dreams. We had a good old time. But I never agreed to fix any games or shave any points. Sweeney took out one of those little schedule cards, circled the games he thought we could fool around with, and gave the card to me. Man, I would watch Jo Jo White, Dave Cowens and John Havlicek playing on television, on that same famous floor where Bill Russell and Bob Cousy and all of those great Celtics teams won all those championships, said Cobb. ESPN The audience is left to make their own judgment on how involved Sweeney and Cobb were in the fixes, but Sweeney missing a free throw when he is the best in the nation is some serious evidence of his involvement. Kuhn, 28, was one of five people found guilty of conspiracy to engage in racketeering and other charges that stemmed from a point-shaving scheme hatched for the 1978-79 school season. You understand? A grand jury indicted Burke, Mazzei, Kuhn, and the Perla brothers. He says that Hill once referenced his girlfriend Maura (now his wife) in one of his threats, asking Sweeney how would your honey feel if she saw your --- hanging in a bracelet? He also says that other mob clichs like references to cement shoes are not just the stuff of Hollywood. My girlfriend and I bought a new stereo, television and some furniture. In addition, they were given the opportunity to bet the money they were paid and double their winnings. I just knew that not only was I going to make the team, but I was going to be a factor in the NBA. It is heartening, by contrast, that the integrity of our coaching and athletic staff, as well as that of our current team, was never in question. It was a sweet victory for prosecutors against Burke, for whom they failed to even build a charge against for his biggest crime, the famous $6 million Lufthansa heist. Burke instructed Hill to warn the players to keep to their end of the deal because "you can't play basketball with broken hands.". In a formal statement issued by its communications office, Boston College said the school's community "is saddened by the fact that one of our former student basketball players has been found guilty of the serious charges of which he was accused . Snitching is seen as one of the worst things you can do to a business partner, but to these people, it is just water under the bridge. I was so thankful, and was willing to work as hard as I possibly could, both in my studies, and in basketball, to be able to get the most I could out of the experience.. Hill and Burke were brought into the scheme, after receiving approval from Lucchese family capo Paul Vario. Mazzei and Tony Perla were sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. 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. Suspecting that some bookmakers might be getting wise to the scheme, the conspirators temporarily revised their strategy after the UCLA game. I called my buddy Frank Melzer, who was an attorney, said Alswanger. Today, any coach would be a goner for sure, cited at the very least for that catchall sin, lack of institutional control. Just ask former Ohio St. football coach Jim Tressel, who lost his job in 2011 thanks to a few players swapping some used cleats for free tattoos at a local parlor. 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? 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 mobsters Paul Mazzei and Henry Hill met in a nearby jail stayed in touch after serving their time. 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. Hes innocent., When they indicted me, they wanted Peter Vario, the mobster, so they tried us together, said Cobb. Supreme Court mulls questions about students' accessibility rights. After discussing their strategy with Kuhn and Sweeney, it was agreed that an upcoming game against Providence would be an appropriate test for their scheme. But for Bowie, it was too little, too late. The scheme was hit or miss early on. The documentary, narrated by Ray Liotta (who portrayed Hill in the film), was set up so that the viewer needed to watch Goodfellas beforehand to understand many of the references in the story. 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]. 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. On the stand during the trial, Rick Kuhns girlfriend, Barbara Reed, with whom he shared an apartment during his senior year at Boston College, testified that she overheard Kuhn and Sweeney discussing the Fordham game, saying that they had to keep the ball away from Cobb because he shot the ball all the time. Kuhn was thus expected to keep the score below the six- to seven-point margin. 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. 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. He traveled throughout the world, getting paid to play the game that he loved. Cobb, for his part, was tried for conspiracy and acquitted. I never got to realize my dream of playing in the NBA, but Ive been all over the globe and have experienced so many different and beautiful cultures. The fixing begins to wear into Sweeney, who confides in his roommates but never seeks out the proper authority. I have suffered. 30 Years After His Exoneration, Former BC Hoops Star Ernie Cobb Is Still Fighting to Clear His Name Pt. You realize that you cant play if you dont do this. Rocco and Tony Perla were giving money to Rick Kuhn. Lawyers for the defendants said they will appeal the verdict. 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. As he walked across the scenic campus, marveled at the schools architectural splendor or ate until his hearts content in the dining hall, hed often pause to quietly give thanks for his fortunate circumstances. Fourteen hours later, I arrived in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.. Everything Id worked so hard for was coming to fruition.. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images But I found out that I wouldnt be allowed to leave the United States because the government was going to bring me to trial.. But its the points that Cobb and teammate Michael Bowie didnt score during the 1978-1979 season which has spawned a federal investigation. 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.'. After he interviewed him, he fell in love with him and told me, Hes innocent. The conspiracy unraveled in 1980 after Hill was arrested by New York State authorities on drug trafficking charges and was subsequently implicated in the Lufthansa heist, which occurred while the point-shaving scheme was underway. I was this poor kid with no financial resources, going on trial with a member of the mob. 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. The government contended that Kuhn was paid $2,500 per game to manipulate the spread in six games and also was given cocaine and Quaaludes. At that point, I was looking forward to a trial, said Cobb. He was a murderer and a horrible human being. Other notable players selected in that draft included Sidney Moncrief, Bill Laimbeer, Bill Cartwright, Mark Eaton and Jim Paxson. The Boston College case arose out of the Lufthansa investigation. But Kuhn was a player of limited ability, so he recruited his roommate and best friend, who also happened to be the most important player on the floor, the teams senior point guard, Jim Sweeney. A former Boston College basketball player and four other men were charged yesterday with conspiring to fix six basketball games during the 1978-79 season by shaving points. After winning a few and losing a few, Hill and his gang came to view Cobb and Sweeney as unreliable game-fixers and eventually gave up the scam. They greet each other like old friends; there is no bitterness between them. Other times, they didnt deliver as promised, which caused some very dangerous and ill-tempered men to lose large sums of cash. He just kept swishing them in, 30 or 35 points, I dont remember., Hill went on to say, And they (Kuhn and Sweeney) were still saying, We got to have Cobb. I realized that and so I passed the word through Tony (Perla), At all costs, talk to him. Next thing I heard Cobb was all set, but it was going to take another $2,500 for his share. It wasnt until I actually saw him play that I realized how special he was as an offensive talent. Burke, through Hill, would front the money to pay the players, forwarding the money through Mazzei and the Perla brothers. Keeping Score: Close Shave. Greenfield Recorder, Greenfield Recorder, 27 Apr. View Rick Kuhns profile on LinkedIn, the worlds largest professional community. Rick Kuhn, 55, passed away peacefully on September 12, 2022, in his home in West Fargo, ND, surrounded by his family. won by only two points and I had a lot of losing money down on this game. He took advantage of an opportunity that surfaced when a pro team from Israel offered him a spot on their roster. Thus, for example, if participating bookmakers determined Boston College to be an eight-point favorite in a particular game, Kuhn would be paid a bonus, usually $2,500, if they won by less than eight points. Rocco Perla and Kuhn were high-school classmates. Kuhn tells Sweeney that the mobsters in New York and Pittsburgh want this win and that this will be the last fix. The government also contended Kuhn tried to recruit other players, including the team's leading scorer, Ernie Cobb, and Hill said in an article in Sports Illustrated -- for which he was paid $10,000 -- that he made payments to Cobb for his cooperation. Contact Me. The scheme was conceived by Rocco Perla and his brother Anthony in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, during the summer of 1978. I had a relentless type of game.. Kuhn, who ultimately served four years in prison for conspiracy and racketeering, hatched a plan with Hill associates Tony Perla, his brother Rocco Perla, and Paul Mazzei to shave points - losing by more than the point spread or winning by less than the point spread - in several BC games between December 1978 and March 1979. It is quite a ride, so please, enjoy it. U.S. District Judge Henry Bramwell set sentencing for Jan. 8. Kuhn told people at Boston College later Rick Kuhn during Boston College men's basketball's 1977-1978 season. 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. He said he would have done that if the sides were reversed. 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