Undercover Informant in NCAA Corruption Probe Avoids Prison
- Former money manager wore wire while making illicit payments
- Judge orders probation after probe led to 10 convictions
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The Pittsburgh-area money manager whose cooperation helped the U.S. win 10 criminal convictions in a college basketball corruption probe will avoid prison for his own crimes, after a federal judge ordered him to serve a year of probation.
Louis Martin “Marty” Blazer III was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos in New York, about six years after Blazer told investigators he had stolen from clients to fund failing investments in two movies and a country music project.