FBI Hotline Invites Tips on NCAA Bribery, After a Brief Hold
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U.S. feds are so confident there’s more bribery and corruption to root out of college sports that they promoted a hotline where people can share tips with investigators. But they briefly got their wires crossed.
As the FBI helped announce fraud and conspiracy charges on Tuesday against 10 people linked to NCAA basketball, it publicized a dedicated line (212 384-2135) to gather more tips in the same vein. Joon Kim, the acting U.S. attorney in Manhattan, went so far as to encourage participants in sports bribery to rat themselves out. “Better for you to be calling us, than for us to be calling you,” he said.