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[indistinct conversations]

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[reporter 1] Next to the woman.
Talking to the woman right now.

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Coming in the door right now.
Got him. There he is. That's him.

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Tim, how'd it go?

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[ominous music playing]

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Allegations against one basketball ref
of betting on

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and even tilting the outcome of games
is rocking the NBA.

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[man] Stay behind the barricade!

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[anchor 1] Commissioner David Stern
said today

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it is the worst situation he has faced

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as head of
the National Basketball Association.

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This is not anything other
than an act of betrayal.

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[news anchor 2] Former NBA ref Tim Donaghy

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pleaded guilty
to betting on basketball games,

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including games
in which he was officiating.

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[anchor 3] This amid allegations

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Donaghy may have been working
with the Mafia

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in a point-shaving scandal.

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An official entrusted
with the integrity of the game,

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now said to be receiving death threats.

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[reporter 2] Did your client ever make
a call on the basketball court

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that was influenced
by his association with gamblers?

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There was no suggestion
that he did anything inappropriate

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with respect to calling those games.

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This is not a situation
where games were manipulated or fixed.

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[reporter 2] He denies
that it ever took place?

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Absolutely unconditionally.

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[producer] We got lunch for Tim, yeah?

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Good.

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Uh, what are we doing here?

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I know what we're doing here, right?

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We… We are trying to figure out
about Timmy's games.

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[announcer] Tim Donaghy,
one of the officials…

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Everybody always asked,
"Did he fix the games?"

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"Did he fix the games?
Did he fix the games?" You know.

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[anchor] Donaghy's two
alleged coconspirators,

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Thomas Martino and James Battista.

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He fixed them like a motherfucker.
He was the greatest.

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[announcer] Good NBA official…

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That's my only positive thing
I could say about him.

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There was nobody that can control
the whistle like Timmy did.

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[ominous music continues]

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One night he said it to me…
And I remember he said it.

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"I can influence games
six points either way."

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[music fades]

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[producer] Gotta get 30 more
into it right now. Great.

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["Your Sweet Love"
by Lee Hazlewood playing]

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♪ Strangers arms ♪

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♪ Reach out to me ♪

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♪ 'Cause they know ♪

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♪ I'm so lonely ♪

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♪ Then my mind ♪

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♪ Goes back to you ♪

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♪ Your sweet love ♪

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♪ Sees me through ♪

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[song ends]

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-["Drinkin’ Problem" by Midland playing]
-♪ I call it a solution ♪

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♪ Last call gets later and later ♪

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♪ I come in here so I don't have to… ♪

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[Tim] I did something
that was stupid and unfathomable.

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[tense music playing]

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I had a great job.
Great family, nice house, great cars.

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Man, did I fuck my life up.

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[intriguing music playing]

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I grew up in Delaware County.

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I loved the game of basketball growing up.

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It's all I did, all I dreamt of,
and all I wanted to be a part of.

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[crowd cheering]

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Growing up outside Philadelphia,
the Sixers were great at the time.

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They won a Championship.

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[applause and cheers]

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-I never missed a game.
-[whistling]

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My dad was a successful college referee.

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[announcer] The officials? Jerry Donaghy
from Havertown, Pennsylvania. David…

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[Tim] You know, I saw the friendships
that he made with other officials.

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I saw the excitement that you get

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by being a part of the game
at a very young age.

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Delaware County's famous for being
where a lot of NBA referees are from.

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-[blows whistle]
-T! Right here!

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[Tim] Like Joe Crawford was
a legend in Delaware County.

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You! Out of here!

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[Tim] Then you have Javie,
Strom, Middleton,

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Callahan, Washington.

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Nowitzki! Knock it off!

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[Tim] They were all from Philadelphia,
so I thought to myself,

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"If they can do it, why… why couldn't I?"

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-[videocassette rattling]
-[inspirational music playing]

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[video narrator] Welcome to
the introduction to officiating mechanics.

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[referee] This is how you start the clock.
Disallowing a basket. No score.

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Shot is made. Touchdown.

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Three points.

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Travel.

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Blocking. Holding. Pushing.

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Charging.

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[Tim] The NBA gave me a ticket to go out
to California for my first NBA camp.

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From there, I was put on the staff
to officiate in the CBA.

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[announcer] Personable gentleman,
nice to talk with.

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-[crowd cheering]
-[music fades]

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[woman] I was a flight attendant,

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and Tim was in the CBA,

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which are the farm teams.

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[calm music playing]

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He came on my plane
at six o'clock in the morning one morning,

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and he was as cute
and cocky as all get-out,

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and he said, "I'm gonna sit right by you."

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And I said, "No, you're not.
You're gonna sit in your seat." [laughs]

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And he sat right by me. [laughs]

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And so he just instantly made me laugh.

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And made me laugh all the way
from Moline to Chicago.

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[calm music continues]

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We got married on a beach.
I was pregnant and barefoot.

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It was just he and I,
right in front of the water.

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We gave a disposable camera
to someone who was standing there,

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and they snapped the pictures,
and that was it. [chuckles]

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When he told me that his goal
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I thought,
"That… That's great. That's fantastic."

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"What a neat thing. You know, there are
only 50 of them in the whole country."

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So really,
whatever I could do to support him, I did.

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[calm music continues]

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[Tim] When you're going
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there's a lot of lonely days on the road.

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And you're saying, "Is this all worth it?"

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"Am I gonna make it?
Am I going to be the one chosen?"

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The day that he got the phone call,

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he called me, and he said, "I got in."

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Three words. I got in.

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[crowd cheering]

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[projector clicks]

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-[crowd cheering]
-[announcer 1] Officials tonight.

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Paul Mihalak, Blane Reichelt,
and Tim Donaghy.

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Mihalak, Reichelt, and Donaghy.

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[exciting music playing]

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[Tim] My first NBA game
after I was hired was Houston at Indiana.

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[announcer 1] And the Rockets win the tip.

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[Tim] Reggie Miller, he loved
to hold and grab coming off screens.

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He loved to pump-fake
and jump into people.

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[crowd cheering]

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It was a close game.

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[announcer 1] Taking it down to Olajuwon.
Spinning to the middle.

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[Tim] I made a call at the end
of the game where Reggie Miller

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jumped into Hakeem Olajuwon.
Threw his shoulder right into him.

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-[whistle blows]
-[announcer 1] And Olajuwon fouled.

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They're gonna call
an offensive foul on Reggie Miller!

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Oh boy, that took a lot of guts
by that young official,

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and boy, look at the debris
come out on the court…

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[Tim] The Indiana fans just went berserk

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and were throwing stuff on the floor
for, felt like, two hours.

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I kept saying to Paul Mehalik, you know,

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"There's only a couple seconds
left in the game."

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"Just put the ball in play."

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He says, "I can't!"

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He says, "It's like a hockey rink
out here. Somebody's gonna get hurt."

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[announcer 1] I've never seen
anything like it.

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This is my tenth year,
and I have never seen this before. Never.

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[buzzer blaring]

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The Houston Rockets,
trying to get off the court in a hurry.

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[Tim] The supervisor
at the time took the game tape.

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He looked at me, and he said,

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"We'll find out real quick
if you'll make it in this league."

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And we went back to the hotel room
and watched the tape.

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And he said it was the right call.

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[announcer 1] If this young man's gonna
grow up to be an official in this league,

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he's going to have to make the tough call,
and he did the right thing.

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[dramatic whoosh]

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[indistinct chattering]

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[Kim] There's Daddy. [laughing]

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When Tim was hired by the NBA,

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I could just tell
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He was like, "Yes."

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[announcer 1] Jason Kidd,
beautiful move around Kenny Smith.

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It goes, and he's fouled.

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[man] You know,
I never really cared for the NBA.

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I used to watch it
just because Tim was reffing the games.

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[laughs]

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[Kim] Tommy has been, and will always be,
Tim's partner in crime.

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The two of them fed off of each other.

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[Tommy] I made a lot
of bad decisions as a kid.

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[tense music playing]

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One day, when I was in first grade,

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this bird took a shit on the pole.

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And I'm thinking to myself,

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I wanted to taste the bird shit.

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So I tasted the bird shit.

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I felt, like, this out-of-body experience,

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and I knew I did something wrong.

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Maybe early on,

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I had a penchant for risk-taking.

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[Tim chuckling] One of those guys
that all the girls loved.

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Athletic, funny,
good-looking kid that everybody liked.

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He had good street smarts.
Easygoing, always made people happy.

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You wanted to be around Tommy.

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[Tommy] Baba and Donaghy were not friends.
They were acquaintances.

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I was friends with Jimmy.
I was friends with Timmy.

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-[ominous music playing]
-I was their link.

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All three of us went to
Cardinal O'Hara High School together.

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Tim was hilarious.

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He was the prankster, you know.
He was the guy pulling the fire alarm.

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[ominous music continues]

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Jimmy was a God-fearing,
churchgoing boy just like we were.

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And his family was very strict with him.

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Maybe that's why he rebelled a little bit.

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And got mixed up with them guys.

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[music fades]

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[Jimmy] I graduated high school
by the skin of my teeth

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'cause I didn't give a fuck.

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But I got a job
at a restaurant called Lombardo's.

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Louis Lombardo, Lump, he gave me a job,
and I worked as a waiter.

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I saw a different side of the world.

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People were drinking and partying
in the '80s.

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Coke was good. Money was good.

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Everyone was living and loving life.

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[announcer] Back at Wrigley Field,
here are the lineups. For the Phillies…

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[Jimmy] There was a customer,
wanted a special order.

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He goes, "Can I get a dime
on the Phillies tonight?"

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Lump took the bet.

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[announcer] Double-play ball!
Nice play out at second! And Cubs win!

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[Jimmy] Phillies lost that night.

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Here I am working,
hoping to make 300 a night as a waiter.

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"I said, "That motherfucker made
$1,000 not doing nothing!"

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[crowd cheering]

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And right there,
that started my love for gambling.

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-[intriguing music playing]
-A nickel was 500.

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A dime is a thousand.

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A stick is a hundred thousand.

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And if you got into my world,
you deal with balloons,

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and that was a million.

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Nickel, dime, stick, and balloon.

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If you didn't know what they were,
you weren't invited to the party.

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The Animals…

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We were a group of gambling bookmakers
from the Philadelphia area.

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We were young kids, booking, betting.

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We became a player because
our information and knowledge hurt people.

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We were taking money
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and we were good.

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[announcer 1] This is a chance
for 'em to put it away.

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[Jimmy] Any sporting event
that we can get inside information on.

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College football. College basketball.

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[announcer 2] Quick bounce…

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NBA. We didn't care what league it was.

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If it was two fucking cockroaches, it was
about getting the right information.

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And I had a good personality

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to get information out of people
on a one-to-one basis.

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[announcer 3] He's gonna trap all over.
They have nothing to lose,

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so it's gonna be a half-court…

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-[announcer 4] Oh!
-[whistle blowing repeatedly]

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-And a technical foul is called.
-[announcer 3] That's gonna be on Juwan--

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-[announcer 4] Hanging on the rim.
-[announcer 3] It won't…

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[Tim] When you're hired into the league,
you think everything is done

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based on the rules
how they're written in the rule book.

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[dark synth music playing]

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You quickly learn,

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if you're gonna survive,
that's not the way things are done.

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[dark synth music continues]

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I started to understand
the game within the game

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of the NBA, and I'll give you an example.

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I was in Philadelphia,
and I'm refereeing Sixers-Bulls.

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They were cracking down on a spin move

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that they wanted the officials
to call traveling.

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And Michael Jordan does the spin move,
and I make the call.

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[announcer] Michael on the block, travel.

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[Tim] Phil Jackson comes flying
off the bench,

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and he starts giving me shit.

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And I say, "Wait a second, Phil.
You know as well as I do,

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that's the spin move
that they're telling us to call."

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And he said,
"They may want that play called,

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but they certainly don't want it
called on him."

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And he pointed at Jordan,
who walked by and just stared at me.

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I got in the locker room.
The other referee said,

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"They want that call,
but don't call it on him."

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The way David Stern structured the league,

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we as officials knew that it was better

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to treat the star players
better than others.

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I just wanted to be the best referee
and advance up the ladder,

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and I saw the way guys
that were in the NBA Finals

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handled the game.

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They didn't call fouls against the stars,
and they were well-respected.

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[dark synth music continues]

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These people that pay thousands of dollars
to sit courtside here,

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they didn't come here
to see Kobe Bryant, LeBron James,

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Shaquille O'Neal sit on the bench.

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They came to see them play.

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The league's your boss,
and you want them to think

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you're doing a good job
because, if that's the case,

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you're on that playoff roster
that comes out.

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With that is an enormous amount
more money and… and respect.

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-[knocking]
-[official] Yo! Timothy!

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[intriguing music playing]

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[Tim] As an official,
if you were on a ten-day trip

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and you were with the same guys,
it was like a brotherhood.

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You became family, really.

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Scott Foster, he was, you know,
like a brother to me.

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It was written in the contract
that you couldn't place a bet of any kind.

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Whether it was a golf match
or going to a casino.

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A lot of the referees went to the casinos
on the road and liked to gamble.

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Sometimes we'd play little games
as officials.

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A lot of times, starting the games,

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we would bet
who called the first foul of the game.

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[announcer 1] That's slapped away
by Strickland.

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[Tim] Twenty bucks, thirty bucks,
fifty bucks, dinner that night.

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We did it one time and got to the two
or three-minute mark of the first quarter,

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and bodies were fucking flying
all over the place.

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-A lot of that stuff went on.
-[intriguing music continues]

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[announcer 2]
Now he's not getting the call--

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[announcer 3] And a technical foul.
Tim Donaghy calls a technical.

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And his second one. And Tim Donaghy
has missed several calls tonight,

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and when Mike Dunleavy complains,
Donaghy tosses him out of the game.

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[Kim] When I noticed
that things were shifting,

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he would come home,

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and I didn't know

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what Tim I was gonna get
when he walked in the door.

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I didn't know
if I was gonna get happy, fun Tim

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or if I was gonna get
the Tim that dropped his bag

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at the bottom of the stairs
and just walk up to his room

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and get on the phone.

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[announcer 3] And Bonzi Wells
has been tossed,

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and Tim Donaghy
with quick whistles all night long.

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And Bonzi Wells now joins Mike Dunleavy
in the Portland locker room.

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[crowd yelling]

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[announcer 2]
You can't touch the official.

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Right over the house.

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[Kim] Tim, it probably
wouldn't be a very good idea.

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My parents still have
nine months left here.

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[Kim] I only knew who he was talking to
when somebody called the house phone,

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and it was usually Jack.

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[people laughing]

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[Tim] Jack Concannon was a guy
from Delaware County.

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We played golf
three, four times a week together.

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Jack and I started betting,
uh… football, baseball.

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We just had a lot of fun together.

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When Jack would call the house,

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I would say,
"Tim, your girlfriend's on the phone."

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And he immediately knew that it was Jack

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because they talked
five, six, seven times a day.

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[Tim] It had 15 plays on it a day
that, win or lose,

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it could mean five
or ten thousand dollars.

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We kind of went in partners.

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He put the bets in,
and at the end of the week,

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we would square up.

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[intriguing music playing]

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And then, I'll never forget,
one time we went to play golf.

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Before we played, he said,

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"Give me some winners of…
of the games tonight in the NBA."

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[dramatic whoosh]

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And I looked at the lines in the paper.

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I knew who was refereeing the games
because I looked at the master schedule.

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I gave him three plays,

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and he called me up the next day and said,
"Is it really that easy?"

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And I said, "Wh… What happened?"

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And he goes, "They all won."

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[dramatic whoosh]

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[Jimmy] Jack Concannon was booking
with The Animals.

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Jack was a nickel better.

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Jack's bets went up in denomination.

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From him betting a nickel,
and he's up to two dimes or three dimes.

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And I'm like, "Jack's not
a two or three dime bettor."

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So I'm like,
"Oh. What the hell's going on here?"

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[dramatic whoosh]

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[Tim] There was a lot
of different information I could use

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to make these picks.

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Referees would share information
with each other.

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00:19:43,348 --> 00:19:46,894
Maybe a referee
had an issue with a coach or a player.

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Maybe a trainer came into the locker room

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before the game,
said a couple of their players were hurt.

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A lot of it was inside information.

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00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:00,324
[dramatic music playing]

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[Kim] I was very well aware of the rule

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that referees
were not allowed to bet on anything.

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I remember telling him,

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"You better be careful."

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"If you go down, you're gonna take
our whole family down with you."

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[Tim] Didn't need the money.

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Between stock investments,
between playoff bonuses,

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I was making well close to 400,000 a year.

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I was near a line
that I shouldn't have been near

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and then jumped over it, giving picks

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on games
that I was officiating in the NBA.

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[Jimmy] I find out that Jack
was betting Timmy's games.

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And if he's got that information,

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so I take it and run with it.

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So if they were betting
four or five dimes a game,

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then we'll just bet
ten or 20 times the amount.

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He was a cash cow. It was incredible.

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-Years later…
-[metallic whoosh]

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…I had a major falling-out
with The Animals.

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00:21:09,059 --> 00:21:10,852
And we went our separate ways.

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And that's when I decided to go after Tim.

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-[dramatic whoosh]
-[music fades]

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-["Forever Young" by Alphaville playing]
-♪ Forever young ♪

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♪ I want to be forever young ♪

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00:21:24,032 --> 00:21:27,035
♪ Do you really want to live forever? ♪

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[lively music playing]

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Go sit down, bitch!

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00:21:31,248 --> 00:21:33,542
Tommy, Patty,
just wanna say congratulations.

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I wish you the best of luck.
Going to be a long life.

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I hope you have many little kids, honey.

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00:21:39,464 --> 00:21:42,467
God bless you. I love you, Tommy,
from the bottom of my heart.

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00:21:42,551 --> 00:21:45,429
Patty, take care of him.
He's the best-paying boss in the world.

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00:21:45,512 --> 00:21:47,889
-Thank you, I love you. [kisses]
-[music fades]

402
00:21:47,973 --> 00:21:52,269
-[dark synth music plays]
-[siren wailing]

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00:21:52,352 --> 00:21:56,106
[Tommy] Baba said,
"When is Timmy in town again?"

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00:21:56,189 --> 00:21:58,775
"I need to meet up with him.
He's in trouble."

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00:21:59,901 --> 00:22:02,321
I said, "What? Tim?
What do you mean he's in trouble?"

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00:22:03,697 --> 00:22:05,615
He goes, "Set up a meeting with him."

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00:22:06,616 --> 00:22:07,701
So I said, "Okay."

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[tense music playing]

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00:22:10,037 --> 00:22:12,622
I remember one time
mentioning Battista's name

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to Donaghy on the phone years before that,

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00:22:15,417 --> 00:22:18,628
and he goes, "Tom, don't even mention
his name on the phone with me."

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00:22:18,712 --> 00:22:20,964
He said, "I cannot be associated

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with anything like bookmaking

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or betting or anything like that."

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00:22:26,011 --> 00:22:27,637
[tense music intensifies]

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So I never said that Battista
wanted to meet up with him.

417
00:22:34,436 --> 00:22:37,522
[producer] Why is everybody's story
about the Marriott so different?

418
00:22:38,774 --> 00:22:39,608
Uh…

419
00:22:40,609 --> 00:22:42,819
I think it's a… it's a… it's a, um…

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00:22:44,529 --> 00:22:46,239
Dave, could we cut for a sec?

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[Tim] Tommy called me up and said
he wanted to have dinner with me.

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00:22:52,120 --> 00:22:55,123
He shows up with Battista,
and I said to him immediately,

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"Tommy, what the fuck is he doing here?
I can't be seen with him."

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-[tense music continues]
-[Tommy] He looked at Battista,

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and then he looked at me
like he saw a ghost.

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We sat down at the table. Battista said,

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00:23:08,887 --> 00:23:12,015
"Timmy, look,
I know you're giving the games to Jack."

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00:23:12,849 --> 00:23:14,768
He said he knew
that I had been giving Jack

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picks for the last couple of years,
and he was getting those picks…

430
00:23:18,063 --> 00:23:19,147
[ominous music playing]

431
00:23:19,231 --> 00:23:22,025
…and he wanted to continue
to get those picks.

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00:23:25,362 --> 00:23:27,489
[Jimmy] And I said, "Let's work together."

433
00:23:29,157 --> 00:23:33,203
"But make me the sole guy."

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00:23:35,789 --> 00:23:39,000
[Jimmy] Battista wrote on a napkin, "2K,"

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00:23:39,793 --> 00:23:41,378
and he held up the napkin.

436
00:23:41,461 --> 00:23:43,839
He goes,
"I'll give you this. Give them to me."

437
00:23:44,339 --> 00:23:46,133
I made him the greatest deal in the world.

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00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:50,178
If we win the bets,
I'll give you two dimes.

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00:23:52,264 --> 00:23:55,016
-You're not gonna pay on your losses.
-[metallic whoosh]

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00:23:56,143 --> 00:24:00,313
Just fucking pick me winners.
Give me the right side.

441
00:24:01,857 --> 00:24:03,817
[Tim] Tommy goes to the bathroom.

442
00:24:04,443 --> 00:24:06,153
I was alone with Battista.

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00:24:06,903 --> 00:24:07,779
He says,

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00:24:07,863 --> 00:24:11,241
"You don't want us calling the NBA
and telling them what you've been doing."

445
00:24:11,992 --> 00:24:13,994
"Worse yet, you don't want
somebody from New York

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00:24:14,077 --> 00:24:16,121
visiting your wife and kids in Florida."

447
00:24:16,788 --> 00:24:19,249
[dramatic whoosh]

448
00:24:19,332 --> 00:24:22,794
[Kim] Okay, here's Bridget!
Bridget's first birthday!

449
00:24:22,878 --> 00:24:25,255
[Tim] And when he said that, I was scared.

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00:24:26,006 --> 00:24:27,924
You know, not really of Battista

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00:24:28,008 --> 00:24:31,094
but people
that he was most likely dealing with.

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00:24:31,595 --> 00:24:33,013
[Kim] All right, are you ready?

453
00:24:33,847 --> 00:24:36,766
[Tim] The job I had, the family I had,

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00:24:37,642 --> 00:24:39,186
I really didn't have a choice.

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00:24:39,269 --> 00:24:41,438
[Kim and Tim] Yay!

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00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:47,152
[producer] Had he not made the threat,
would you have bet with him?

457
00:24:47,235 --> 00:24:48,069
No.

458
00:24:48,570 --> 00:24:51,406
No. If it wasn't for that,
I definitely would not have bet with him

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00:24:51,490 --> 00:24:55,785
because I knew he was just
a… a schmuck and an asshole.

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00:24:55,869 --> 00:24:58,038
Anyone that had anything to do with him

461
00:24:58,121 --> 00:25:00,373
always, you know, moved away from him.

462
00:25:01,082 --> 00:25:03,251
[tense music playing]

463
00:25:03,335 --> 00:25:07,589
Timmy was fucking thrilled
to work with us. To make money.

464
00:25:07,672 --> 00:25:10,550
[announcer] That's a tough call.
I think it's the correct call…

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00:25:10,634 --> 00:25:12,427
Of all the fucked-up things I did,

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00:25:13,220 --> 00:25:14,596
never threatened him.

467
00:25:15,597 --> 00:25:18,517
You don't win people over
threatening people.

468
00:25:19,267 --> 00:25:20,894
You get farther with honey.

469
00:25:22,687 --> 00:25:25,815
[Tommy] I did not see
Battista threaten Donaghy,

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00:25:25,899 --> 00:25:29,903
and Battista's pissed off about this
because he doesn't wanna be portrayed

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00:25:29,986 --> 00:25:32,405
as the type of person
that would go threaten people's families,

472
00:25:32,489 --> 00:25:34,157
and I don't think
he is that type of person.

473
00:25:34,741 --> 00:25:35,909
I know he's not.

474
00:25:36,451 --> 00:25:38,954
To me, it wasn't
a life-or-death situation.

475
00:25:39,454 --> 00:25:41,373
If it was, I would have bailed.

476
00:25:42,749 --> 00:25:44,584
I'm not into that shit, you know?

477
00:25:45,168 --> 00:25:47,170
-[dramatic whoosh]
-[music stops]

478
00:25:48,380 --> 00:25:50,924
[Tim] After our meeting
at the Marriott that night,

479
00:25:51,007 --> 00:25:53,552
I was in town to referee Boston at Philly.

480
00:25:54,052 --> 00:25:55,178
[whistle blows]

481
00:25:56,179 --> 00:25:59,182
The day prior,
I was refereeing with Derrick Stafford.

482
00:25:59,266 --> 00:26:02,269
He had said he felt like Mo Cheeks
had no idea what he was doing,

483
00:26:02,352 --> 00:26:05,146
and his heart wasn't into coaching,
and not only that,

484
00:26:05,230 --> 00:26:07,482
Philly was tanking games
for better draft picks,

485
00:26:07,566 --> 00:26:09,109
so they really weren't trying.

486
00:26:09,818 --> 00:26:12,153
So, I told Battista to bet Boston.

487
00:26:13,446 --> 00:26:14,739
[announcer 1] …rebounding now.

488
00:26:14,823 --> 00:26:19,160
Telfair quickly ahead to Allen.
Allen takes it right at Iguodala for two.

489
00:26:19,244 --> 00:26:22,289
[announcer 2] Boy, that's what I like,
quick up the floor.

490
00:26:22,872 --> 00:26:24,624
[announcer 1] Pierce 0 for 2
to start the game,

491
00:26:24,708 --> 00:26:26,209
and Iguodala goes coast to coast.

492
00:26:26,293 --> 00:26:29,212
Seven-point Philly lead,
their biggest of the night.

493
00:26:29,296 --> 00:26:33,592
-Iguodala, his second steal and basket.
-[dramatic electric guitar playing]

494
00:26:33,675 --> 00:26:37,095
Pierce to Allen, rebound,
and he got fouled.

495
00:26:37,178 --> 00:26:39,139
Donaghy coming in from the outside.

496
00:26:39,723 --> 00:26:41,808
[announcer 2] Boy,
and that booing in Philly.

497
00:26:41,891 --> 00:26:44,769
I don't ever remember
hearing them boo in Philly.

498
00:26:44,853 --> 00:26:45,937
At their own team!

499
00:26:46,521 --> 00:26:48,732
[announcer 1] The Philadelphia
losing streak gets longer,

500
00:26:48,815 --> 00:26:52,027
and Boston climbs to 8 and 13 now

501
00:26:52,110 --> 00:26:53,737
-on the season.
-[buzzer ringing]

502
00:26:53,820 --> 00:26:55,030
[music stops]

503
00:26:55,947 --> 00:26:59,993
After the Boston game,
Battista came to me, and he said,

504
00:27:00,076 --> 00:27:03,872
"Tim's new nickname is Elvis.
Because he's the king."

505
00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:06,416
-[upbeat music playing]
-And he was the king.

506
00:27:08,793 --> 00:27:10,712
[Tim] Battista was placing the bets,

507
00:27:10,795 --> 00:27:13,757
getting the information through Tommy
that came through me.

508
00:27:14,382 --> 00:27:17,093
I would never talk to Timmy.
He had to go through Tommy.

509
00:27:17,177 --> 00:27:18,136
[phone vibrating]

510
00:27:18,219 --> 00:27:20,639
[Tommy] Timmy would tell me
who we would bet on

511
00:27:20,722 --> 00:27:23,308
by my brothers' names.

512
00:27:24,142 --> 00:27:26,895
My brother Johnny moved to Jersey.
He was the away team.

513
00:27:26,978 --> 00:27:30,690
My brother Chuck stayed here,
so he was the home team.

514
00:27:30,774 --> 00:27:33,109
He'd say, "Hey, Tommy, what's going on?
I'm in, uh, Boston."

515
00:27:33,193 --> 00:27:35,195
"Hey, how's Johnny doing?"

516
00:27:35,278 --> 00:27:38,365
Yeah, "How's Johnny doing?"
Or, "Who's he having Thanksgiving with?"

517
00:27:38,448 --> 00:27:40,116
"All right, call me tomorrow."

518
00:27:40,617 --> 00:27:43,036
[Tommy] And I would relay it
back to Battista.

519
00:27:44,621 --> 00:27:46,539
[Jimmy] I made a lot of money.

520
00:27:47,082 --> 00:27:50,377
There was a few million bet on each game
that I was in control of.

521
00:27:50,877 --> 00:27:53,630
I was moving
the most prominent gamblers in the world.

522
00:27:53,713 --> 00:27:57,926
I'd just charge them half, quarter, or 1%.
We're moving millions of dollars a day?

523
00:27:58,718 --> 00:28:01,221
-It was a printing press. Cash.
-[upbeat music continues]

524
00:28:01,304 --> 00:28:05,392
-[laughing]
-[music fades]

525
00:28:06,101 --> 00:28:06,935
[whistle blows]

526
00:28:07,018 --> 00:28:09,479
[announcer 1] Pepsi Center tonight,
the Utah Jazz,

527
00:28:09,562 --> 00:28:12,691
the top dog team
in the Northwest Division at…

528
00:28:12,774 --> 00:28:14,317
[Tim] Prior to this game,

529
00:28:14,984 --> 00:28:18,947
Allen Iverson and Steve Javie
had butted heads for years.

530
00:28:19,030 --> 00:28:22,492
-I'm not gonna see everything, all right?
-It happened so many times.

531
00:28:22,575 --> 00:28:26,162
[Tim] There was an issue
where Iverson actually threatened Javie,

532
00:28:26,246 --> 00:28:29,916
and we felt as a staff
that Iverson should have been suspended.

533
00:28:31,209 --> 00:28:32,627
We decided, before the game,

534
00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:35,130
we were gonna call
palming violations on him.

535
00:28:35,213 --> 00:28:38,007
We knew he did it,
we knew we could call it,

536
00:28:38,091 --> 00:28:39,384
but nobody ever did.

537
00:28:40,093 --> 00:28:43,304
I even called up Javie that day
and told him to watch the game

538
00:28:43,388 --> 00:28:45,640
because we were gonna take
justice into our own hands.

539
00:28:45,724 --> 00:28:47,726
-[announcer 1] …Iverson.
-[whistle blows]

540
00:28:48,226 --> 00:28:50,437
[announcer 1] And we got
a palming violation.

541
00:28:51,521 --> 00:28:54,607
[Tim] Bernie called the first one.
I called the second one.

542
00:28:54,691 --> 00:28:55,525
[whistle blows]

543
00:28:55,608 --> 00:28:59,070
It was a situation where it was gonna
put Iverson at a disadvantage

544
00:28:59,154 --> 00:29:02,824
and Denver at a disadvantage,
so I told Battista to bet Utah.

545
00:29:02,907 --> 00:29:04,409
[dramatic music playing]

546
00:29:04,492 --> 00:29:07,579
[announcer 1] Nuggets down by just six.
Here goes Iverson. Score!

547
00:29:08,163 --> 00:29:11,207
[announcer 2] He wants an and-one.
He thought Fisher was bodying him.

548
00:29:11,291 --> 00:29:14,878
[announcer 1] Tim Donaghy will not call
a foul when Iverson goes to basket.

549
00:29:14,961 --> 00:29:18,089
[buzzer blaring]

550
00:29:18,173 --> 00:29:22,093
[announcer 1] And the Nuggets, going
to score a season-low 84 points tonight.

551
00:29:22,969 --> 00:29:25,430
[dramatic music continues]

552
00:29:27,390 --> 00:29:28,892
[Jimmy] Some of the games, I was like,

553
00:29:28,975 --> 00:29:31,853
"Oh my God. Oh my God.
Put that fuck… Don't… "

554
00:29:31,936 --> 00:29:34,189
He was… Some of it was very obvious.

555
00:29:34,272 --> 00:29:35,231
[phone vibrating]

556
00:29:35,315 --> 00:29:38,026
So I'm watching each game
on the edge of my chair.

557
00:29:38,109 --> 00:29:39,444
I need to relax.

558
00:29:39,527 --> 00:29:41,988
Pop a few OxyContins. Chill.

559
00:29:43,239 --> 00:29:45,241
[phone continues vibrating]

560
00:29:47,202 --> 00:29:50,455
[Kim] I always did Tim's laundry
when he came home,

561
00:29:50,538 --> 00:29:54,918
and I went to throw his NBA jacket
in the washing machine.

562
00:29:55,418 --> 00:29:57,754
And I put my hand in the pocket,

563
00:29:57,837 --> 00:30:01,925
and there was
a wad of money about that big.

564
00:30:03,176 --> 00:30:04,344
And I thought,

565
00:30:04,928 --> 00:30:08,056
"Wow, that's a lot of money."

566
00:30:09,307 --> 00:30:11,893
"I don't know
if I want to know where it came from."

567
00:30:13,436 --> 00:30:14,521
[television clicking]

568
00:30:14,604 --> 00:30:17,565
[reporter] John Gotti is
the former Gambino family boss.

569
00:30:17,649 --> 00:30:19,651
Gotti was found guilty April 2nd

570
00:30:19,734 --> 00:30:23,071
of murder, racketeering,
tax evasion, and other crimes.

571
00:30:23,154 --> 00:30:26,074
Gotti had escaped prosecution three times,

572
00:30:26,157 --> 00:30:28,785
garnering him the name "Teflon Don."

573
00:30:28,868 --> 00:30:30,453
[ominous whoosh]

574
00:30:30,537 --> 00:30:34,415
[man] I was a member of the team
that prosecuted John Gotti.

575
00:30:34,499 --> 00:30:36,376
[ominous music playing]

576
00:30:36,459 --> 00:30:41,256
2006, I was the supervisor
of the FBI Gambino squad.

577
00:30:42,006 --> 00:30:45,093
We were involved
with murder investigations,

578
00:30:45,176 --> 00:30:48,346
international distribution of drugs,
extortions.

579
00:30:49,639 --> 00:30:51,724
We had a number of wires going on.

580
00:30:51,808 --> 00:30:54,686
One of the peripheral wires
picked up something

581
00:30:54,769 --> 00:30:58,022
about inside information
going on with the NBA.

582
00:31:00,108 --> 00:31:02,068
[Gambino goon] We've got a ref
in our hip pocket.

583
00:31:02,569 --> 00:31:03,945
[FBI detective] What's his name?

584
00:31:05,947 --> 00:31:09,617
[intriguing music playing]

585
00:31:10,285 --> 00:31:12,537
[Phil] Paul Harris was the case agent.

586
00:31:13,037 --> 00:31:15,957
He says, "Phil,
we came up with three names."

587
00:31:18,835 --> 00:31:20,086
[FBI detective] What's his name?

588
00:31:21,462 --> 00:31:23,172
[Gambino goon] Tim Donaghy.

589
00:31:23,256 --> 00:31:24,841
[intriguing music continues]

590
00:31:24,924 --> 00:31:27,385
[Phil] I didn't know Tim Donaghy
from a hole in the wall,

591
00:31:27,468 --> 00:31:30,138
but the fact that
he came up with an active referee

592
00:31:30,221 --> 00:31:32,056
in the NBA was alarming.

593
00:31:33,516 --> 00:31:35,935
He's working with somebody
by the name of Martino

594
00:31:36,019 --> 00:31:39,022
and Battista,
and they do a lot of talking.

595
00:31:39,105 --> 00:31:40,982
And because they do a lot of talking,

596
00:31:41,065 --> 00:31:44,152
there's information
going to the Philadelphia mob.

597
00:31:44,652 --> 00:31:47,196
There's information going offshore.

598
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,449
And there's information going to,

599
00:31:49,532 --> 00:31:52,201
our particular interest,
in the Gambino family.

600
00:31:52,702 --> 00:31:54,704
[music fades]

601
00:31:57,457 --> 00:31:59,208
[Tim] There was always instances

602
00:31:59,292 --> 00:32:02,420
where you're alone
with your thoughts in a hotel room.

603
00:32:03,713 --> 00:32:05,590
And I said to myself,

604
00:32:05,673 --> 00:32:07,759
"I shouldn't be doing this.
This is not good."

605
00:32:07,842 --> 00:32:09,719
"Eventually I'm gonna get caught."

606
00:32:10,511 --> 00:32:12,055
But we were winning.

607
00:32:13,556 --> 00:32:16,517
I was getting $2,000 for a correct pick,

608
00:32:16,601 --> 00:32:19,479
and we're winning, like,
70 to 80% of the time.

609
00:32:20,563 --> 00:32:22,607
It got to the point
where I forgot about Battista.

610
00:32:22,690 --> 00:32:23,942
I forgot about the threats.

611
00:32:24,525 --> 00:32:28,279
We'll do this to the end of the year.
I'm gonna have fun with it, and it's over.

612
00:32:29,405 --> 00:32:32,283
-[dramatic synth music playing]
-[whistle blows]

613
00:32:32,367 --> 00:32:36,371
I was refereeing with Stafford.
He was buddies with Isaiah Thomas.

614
00:32:36,454 --> 00:32:40,541
I knew Stafford didn't have a liking
for Pat Riley, even a little bit.

615
00:32:40,625 --> 00:32:42,293
And I knew any chance he got,

616
00:32:42,377 --> 00:32:44,963
he'd stick it to him
because he was that type of referee.

617
00:32:46,172 --> 00:32:48,466
[announcer] Pat Riley screaming
for a foul call,

618
00:32:48,549 --> 00:32:51,135
and a technical foul's
gonna be called on Riley.

619
00:32:51,219 --> 00:32:52,720
He yelled at Derrick Stafford.

620
00:32:53,513 --> 00:32:58,476
Rose, on the drive inside,
throws it to Crawford for three! Bang!

621
00:32:59,060 --> 00:33:02,355
The Knicks will win their sixth straight
here at Madison Square Garden.

622
00:33:02,438 --> 00:33:05,817
Timmy called me
after every game was over at night,

623
00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:08,987
and he would say, "Good boy?"
And I would say, "Good boy."

624
00:33:09,070 --> 00:33:10,571
After every game.

625
00:33:11,072 --> 00:33:13,700
Now I had extra cash in my pocket.
I was happy.

626
00:33:14,742 --> 00:33:16,869
Tommy would come to one of the games,

627
00:33:16,953 --> 00:33:19,122
brown paper bag
just like they do in the movies,

628
00:33:19,205 --> 00:33:20,623
and hand it to me.

629
00:33:21,249 --> 00:33:23,960
You know, it's weird
because I was doing it for nothing.

630
00:33:24,043 --> 00:33:25,253
But I will say this,

631
00:33:25,336 --> 00:33:29,007
every time I did drop money off to Timmy,
he would give me some of it.

632
00:33:29,590 --> 00:33:32,385
[Tim] When Tommy came
with that brown paper bag full of money,

633
00:33:32,468 --> 00:33:35,263
we went to the nicest strip club,
like we were rock stars,

634
00:33:35,346 --> 00:33:36,597
that you could ever imagine.

635
00:33:36,681 --> 00:33:39,308
And we'd go to the, like…
the tit… titty bars.

636
00:33:40,184 --> 00:33:41,561
Can I say that on there?

637
00:33:42,770 --> 00:33:45,356
-[whistle blows]
-[Tim] I'm refereeing with Joe Crawford.

638
00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:46,607
A couple of weeks prior,

639
00:33:46,691 --> 00:33:49,986
he had a run-in with one
of the Heat's radio or TV announcers,

640
00:33:50,069 --> 00:33:52,363
and the owner
of the Heat wanted him fired.

641
00:33:52,447 --> 00:33:55,867
[announcer 1] …officials looking one
another, Tim Donaghy and Joey Crawford.

642
00:33:55,950 --> 00:33:57,702
[Tim] He was the top official
in the league,

643
00:33:57,785 --> 00:34:00,246
and he could basically do
whatever he wanted to do.

644
00:34:00,329 --> 00:34:03,708
I knew any chance he got,
he was gonna stick it to somebody.

645
00:34:03,791 --> 00:34:05,960
[dramatic synth music continues]

646
00:34:06,794 --> 00:34:08,921
[announcer 1] Shot clock is down to three.

647
00:34:09,005 --> 00:34:10,048
[whistle blows]

648
00:34:10,131 --> 00:34:11,799
And Howard is fouled by Posey.

649
00:34:11,883 --> 00:34:13,968
[announcer 2] With Joe Crawford,
you just don't argue.

650
00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:16,179
[announcer 1]
Only the second home-court loss

651
00:34:16,262 --> 00:34:19,265
in February for the Heat in three seasons.

652
00:34:20,183 --> 00:34:22,393
[Tim] We had a big bash for Kim's 40th.

653
00:34:22,477 --> 00:34:25,563
I bought her a pair of earrings
that cost ten thousand dollars.

654
00:34:26,272 --> 00:34:29,150
[Kim] My 40th birthday present
were these earrings.

655
00:34:29,233 --> 00:34:32,236
I've never taken them out
because I'll probably lose them.

656
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,529
[laughing]

657
00:34:34,113 --> 00:34:37,200
[Tim] You know, things that you normally
wouldn't buy, I was just buying.

658
00:34:37,283 --> 00:34:39,160
Mommy, look what I got!

659
00:34:40,953 --> 00:34:43,039
[Jimmy] I could lose
three million one day,

660
00:34:43,664 --> 00:34:45,583
win six million the next day.

661
00:34:46,084 --> 00:34:47,168
I made good money.

662
00:34:48,044 --> 00:34:49,837
I was a fat fuck,

663
00:34:49,921 --> 00:34:51,756
snorting coke like a rock star.

664
00:34:52,465 --> 00:34:54,967
[Tommy] I was getting Battista
a lot of Percocets.

665
00:34:55,051 --> 00:34:58,805
He was getting Percocets himself.
He was doing a lot of cocaine.

666
00:34:59,305 --> 00:35:02,683
I think I was getting him
like an eight-ball a day.

667
00:35:03,184 --> 00:35:06,354
That was just… part of the problem.

668
00:35:08,606 --> 00:35:11,526
[announcer 1] Arenas splits defenders,
challenges O'Neal.

669
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:16,364
That's the kind of play Eddie Jordan
would like to see a foul called, but--

670
00:35:16,447 --> 00:35:19,784
[announcer 2] Eddie is not happy at all
with Tim Donaghy,

671
00:35:19,867 --> 00:35:22,328
and he's gonna be very, very close,
but he is…

672
00:35:22,411 --> 00:35:23,788
[intriguing music playing]

673
00:35:25,790 --> 00:35:28,459
[Tim] One time we lost
three games in a row.

674
00:35:29,961 --> 00:35:32,505
Tommy said Battista
called him up screaming.

675
00:35:33,381 --> 00:35:37,176
I didn't know if I was gonna go home
and find my dog strangled,

676
00:35:37,260 --> 00:35:40,429
hanging from a tree somewhere,
you know, as a message.

677
00:35:41,973 --> 00:35:45,184
But bottom line was,
I wasn't fixing the games.

678
00:35:45,685 --> 00:35:47,478
So I wasn't gonna go out there

679
00:35:47,562 --> 00:35:50,565
whether we lost ten in a row
and fix a game.

680
00:35:52,483 --> 00:35:54,402
I had inside information,

681
00:35:54,485 --> 00:35:57,488
and that's all I needed
to make these picks correct.

682
00:35:58,156 --> 00:36:00,366
[music fades]

683
00:36:01,534 --> 00:36:03,161
Get the fuck out of here!

684
00:36:03,244 --> 00:36:05,246
[suspenseful music playing]

685
00:36:06,497 --> 00:36:09,417
[Jimmy] He has a fucking whistle
in his pocket.

686
00:36:11,335 --> 00:36:12,920
He has the lottery ticket.

687
00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:17,550
For the record, I bet 47 games with Timmy.

688
00:36:18,676 --> 00:36:20,511
We went 37 and ten.

689
00:36:21,012 --> 00:36:24,015
Thirty-seven and ten by the number.
We crushed the number.

690
00:36:26,934 --> 00:36:28,853
Tim Donaghy, Elvis,

691
00:36:29,645 --> 00:36:31,189
he controlled the outcome.

692
00:36:32,565 --> 00:36:34,317
Elvis was the King of Rock.

693
00:36:35,484 --> 00:36:38,070
And Timmy was the king of fixing games.

694
00:36:39,447 --> 00:36:41,449
[music stops]

695
00:36:47,705 --> 00:36:49,832
[Tommy] We had an agreement at Marriott.

696
00:36:50,458 --> 00:36:51,834
Shut the fuck up.

697
00:36:51,918 --> 00:36:54,462
The word was "cranberries" that we used.

698
00:36:55,046 --> 00:36:57,381
"Cranberries" was the code.
Shut your fucking mouth.

699
00:36:57,465 --> 00:36:58,424
Keep it between us.

700
00:36:58,507 --> 00:37:00,885
Stick to the fucking story.

701
00:37:00,968 --> 00:37:03,304
Keep your mouth shut
and don't tell anybody,

702
00:37:03,387 --> 00:37:05,223
but we all know
that that's not what he did.

703
00:37:05,306 --> 00:37:06,891
[suspenseful music playing]

704
00:37:06,974 --> 00:37:10,436
Battista was giving these picks to guys

705
00:37:10,519 --> 00:37:13,356
that were generating millions
and millions of dollars

706
00:37:13,439 --> 00:37:15,233
for the Gambino crime family.

707
00:37:16,275 --> 00:37:20,071
Battista always wants to say he had
nothing to do with the mob in New York,

708
00:37:20,154 --> 00:37:23,824
but yet he's driving up and down
once a week to drop off or pick up money.

709
00:37:25,701 --> 00:37:27,995
I wasn't a mob guy, okay,

710
00:37:28,079 --> 00:37:31,374
but… did I dine with them at times?

711
00:37:31,457 --> 00:37:32,875
Fucking A, I did.

712
00:37:33,459 --> 00:37:35,962
We were moving serious money.
You had to play protocols.

713
00:37:36,045 --> 00:37:38,881
[suspenseful music continues]

714
00:37:38,965 --> 00:37:40,591
If I wasn't at that table,

715
00:37:40,675 --> 00:37:41,968
"Who the fuck are you?"

716
00:37:45,471 --> 00:37:49,016
[Phil] We did an analysis of hundreds
and hundreds of phone records.

717
00:37:49,558 --> 00:37:50,893
And they come to find out,

718
00:37:51,894 --> 00:37:53,896
Battista was making money for the mob.

719
00:37:54,397 --> 00:37:56,148
[dramatic whoosh]

720
00:37:56,232 --> 00:37:59,902
Now, was he somebody
who was going to the weddings?

721
00:37:59,986 --> 00:38:01,696
Was he someone
who's going to the funerals?

722
00:38:01,779 --> 00:38:04,699
Was he somebody who was gonna hang out
in the clubs? No.

723
00:38:06,284 --> 00:38:07,618
He wasn't a made guy.

724
00:38:08,786 --> 00:38:11,580
But, whether he wants to admit it or not,

725
00:38:11,664 --> 00:38:14,625
he was making big money
for all those entities.

726
00:38:15,543 --> 00:38:16,836
From what we understood,

727
00:38:16,919 --> 00:38:19,672
somewhere between
20 and 30 million dollars.

728
00:38:19,755 --> 00:38:23,592
[suspenseful music continues]

729
00:38:23,676 --> 00:38:25,678
[music stops]

730
00:38:28,472 --> 00:38:30,891
[Tommy] I was on the beach
in South Beach, Miami.

731
00:38:32,893 --> 00:38:35,688
My phone rings, and it's "unavailable."

732
00:38:37,356 --> 00:38:38,733
So I answered.

733
00:38:40,526 --> 00:38:42,611
"Hi. This is Agent Paul Harris."

734
00:38:43,529 --> 00:38:44,905
It's the FBI.

735
00:38:45,698 --> 00:38:47,158
[tense music playing]

736
00:38:47,241 --> 00:38:52,246
[Phil] Operation Flagrant Foul
was the name of the special investigation.

737
00:38:53,581 --> 00:38:56,250
When law enforcement
comes knocking on your door,

738
00:38:56,334 --> 00:38:58,794
most people have a degree of shock.

739
00:38:59,295 --> 00:39:01,339
Especially if it's the first time.

740
00:39:01,922 --> 00:39:03,257
[Tommy] I shit myself.

741
00:39:03,883 --> 00:39:06,510
I got scared shitless.
I didn't eat for a week.

742
00:39:07,511 --> 00:39:10,014
And then when I got home, there they were.

743
00:39:11,515 --> 00:39:14,018
They handed me a subpoena
to appear before a grand jury.

744
00:39:14,101 --> 00:39:15,436
"We'll see you in a week."

745
00:39:17,730 --> 00:39:19,315
[intriguing music playing]

746
00:39:19,398 --> 00:39:22,151
I used to go
to three meetings a day for sobriety.

747
00:39:24,111 --> 00:39:26,781
In the middle of a meeting,
I get a text message. It goes,

748
00:39:26,864 --> 00:39:30,284
"Jimmy, there's two FBI officers
in the driveway. They're looking for you."

749
00:39:30,785 --> 00:39:32,995
I said,
"There's a Dunkin' Donuts up the street."

750
00:39:33,079 --> 00:39:34,914
"I'll meet you there for a cup of coffee."

751
00:39:34,997 --> 00:39:36,749
[tense music playing]

752
00:39:36,832 --> 00:39:40,252
We sat down, say, "Listen, Jimmy,
you need to come talk to us about this

753
00:39:40,336 --> 00:39:42,171
because it's gonna get serious."

754
00:39:42,254 --> 00:39:45,007
"Extortion, money-laundering,
game-fixing."

755
00:39:45,091 --> 00:39:47,134
"You're facing a good 25 years."

756
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:51,472
"Jimmy, either you get on the train,
or you're gonna get run over by it."

757
00:39:52,264 --> 00:39:55,393
And I'm like,
"Fuck you guys. I'm not a rat."

758
00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,147
-[dramatic whoosh]
-[seagulls squawking]

759
00:40:00,231 --> 00:40:03,401
[Tim] Me and my family,
we had moved down to Florida.

760
00:40:04,902 --> 00:40:07,655
-We had a nice house.
-[family] ♪ Happy birthday… ♪

761
00:40:07,738 --> 00:40:08,989
[Tim] Great lifestyle.

762
00:40:09,073 --> 00:40:11,200
[family] ♪ Cha cha cha ♪

763
00:40:11,283 --> 00:40:13,202
[Tim] My kids are all doing terrific.

764
00:40:13,702 --> 00:40:14,662
[Kim] Crash.

765
00:40:15,162 --> 00:40:17,915
Whoa, Meg! Let off! Let off!

766
00:40:18,624 --> 00:40:22,586
[somber music playing]

767
00:40:22,670 --> 00:40:25,840
[Tim] I was on the driving range
at Lakewood Ranch Country Club.

768
00:40:26,674 --> 00:40:29,468
Just getting ready
to break out a new set of irons.

769
00:40:33,222 --> 00:40:36,142
My phone kept ringing and ringing,
and I picked it up.

770
00:40:36,225 --> 00:40:37,184
It was Tommy.

771
00:40:37,268 --> 00:40:39,728
And he just said, "Listen,
I got something I got to tell you."

772
00:40:39,812 --> 00:40:42,440
And I said, "What?"
He goes, "The FBI was here."

773
00:40:43,399 --> 00:40:44,900
"A couple times."

774
00:40:44,984 --> 00:40:47,319
[water sprinklers rattling]

775
00:40:47,403 --> 00:40:50,072
I said to him, "Tommy,
they were there two or three times,

776
00:40:50,156 --> 00:40:51,782
and you're just telling me now?"

777
00:40:53,159 --> 00:40:55,161
[somber music intensifies]

778
00:40:57,121 --> 00:40:58,664
[Kim] He pulled up in the golf cart,

779
00:40:58,747 --> 00:41:02,751
and he came in,
and I remember his exact words.

780
00:41:03,252 --> 00:41:05,296
"That fucking Tommy."

781
00:41:05,379 --> 00:41:08,340
He would never talk about Tommy like that.

782
00:41:10,050 --> 00:41:12,094
He said, "I have to talk to you."

783
00:41:12,178 --> 00:41:14,680
He was in the fetal position on the bed,

784
00:41:14,763 --> 00:41:17,558
and he said, "I took some money,

785
00:41:17,641 --> 00:41:20,311
and I've been doing some things."

786
00:41:21,729 --> 00:41:23,230
And it just clicked.

787
00:41:23,814 --> 00:41:27,151
I just knew,
"He's betting on his own games."

788
00:41:28,486 --> 00:41:31,322
He was crying, just bawling.

789
00:41:32,281 --> 00:41:33,115
I hugged him.

790
00:41:33,199 --> 00:41:35,409
I said, "You know what?
We're gonna get through it."

791
00:41:35,910 --> 00:41:37,536
"It… It's gonna be fine."

792
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:40,956
And I walked out of the bedroom,
I shut the door,

793
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,293
and I went into the kitchen,
and I threw up in the sink.

794
00:41:44,376 --> 00:41:46,378
[music fades]

795
00:41:48,130 --> 00:41:50,257
[Tim] You know,
as soon as Tommy called me,

796
00:41:50,341 --> 00:41:51,675
I knew I was screwed.

797
00:41:51,759 --> 00:41:53,177
… run around and go outside.

798
00:41:53,260 --> 00:41:55,971
When you're put in the middle
of something like that, you don't sleep,

799
00:41:56,055 --> 00:41:59,475
-you don't eat, it just… eats you alive.
-[ominous music playing]

800
00:42:01,936 --> 00:42:05,981
-[announcer 1] Down two games to none.
-[announcer 2] And Giambi down swinging.

801
00:42:06,065 --> 00:42:08,776
[man] I was sitting at home
watching the Yankee game.

802
00:42:09,276 --> 00:42:11,654
-[dramatic whoosh]
-I got a call from Tim.

803
00:42:12,154 --> 00:42:14,281
He said, "Can you meet tonight?"

804
00:42:16,158 --> 00:42:17,910
We met at a restaurant.

805
00:42:17,993 --> 00:42:21,664
I could tell he was devastated
and in bad shape.

806
00:42:21,747 --> 00:42:24,959
-[ominous music continues]
-[clattering in the restaurant]

807
00:42:25,042 --> 00:42:28,170
My strategy always coming into a case

808
00:42:28,254 --> 00:42:30,005
instinctually is to fight.

809
00:42:30,089 --> 00:42:33,050
I don't like cooperating. I like fighting.
I like going to trial.

810
00:42:33,133 --> 00:42:37,012
So my initial reaction was,
this is defensible.

811
00:42:37,596 --> 00:42:38,681
And it was defensible

812
00:42:38,764 --> 00:42:41,392
from a legal strategic standpoint,
initially.

813
00:42:41,475 --> 00:42:44,645
It was not defensible
from an emotive standpoint.

814
00:42:44,728 --> 00:42:46,063
[intriguing music playing]

815
00:42:46,146 --> 00:42:47,648
Tim had to confess.

816
00:42:48,899 --> 00:42:49,900
He had to.

817
00:42:51,610 --> 00:42:55,823
Moreover, we didn't know
what the other characters were doing.

818
00:42:55,906 --> 00:42:59,702
I didn't know where Baba was.
He was coming out of rehab.

819
00:42:59,785 --> 00:43:02,788
I knew that Tommy Martino
had been in to the grand jury,

820
00:43:02,871 --> 00:43:04,665
which is always a dangerous sign.

821
00:43:05,666 --> 00:43:08,460
So we had to make a strategic decision

822
00:43:08,544 --> 00:43:11,964
to go in to the US attorney's office
and cooperate fully,

823
00:43:12,047 --> 00:43:14,717
which we did in, like, 48 hours.

824
00:43:14,800 --> 00:43:17,428
It was the quickest
I've ever taken a client in.

825
00:43:17,511 --> 00:43:19,847
[intriguing music continues]

826
00:43:19,930 --> 00:43:22,516
[Tommy] I go up in front of a grand jury.

827
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,977
Prosecuting attorney asked me,

828
00:43:25,644 --> 00:43:29,523
"What were you doing on the phone
with Donaghy for 9,000 minutes a month?"

829
00:43:30,316 --> 00:43:32,651
I said,
"We were talking about family matters."

830
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:36,780
And he says, "All right, stop right there.
You heard that. He lied."

831
00:43:37,865 --> 00:43:38,991
I guess he wanted me to say

832
00:43:39,074 --> 00:43:41,994
we were talking about basketball games
that he was officiating.

833
00:43:42,494 --> 00:43:44,622
So they slapped me with a perjury charge.

834
00:43:45,956 --> 00:43:49,585
I remember the prosecuting attorney
coming to me at the turnstiles.

835
00:43:49,668 --> 00:43:53,756
And he says, "Martino,
your buddy Tim reffed his last NBA game."

836
00:43:55,341 --> 00:43:58,594
And I thought,
"Holy shit, man. We're screwed, man."

837
00:43:59,136 --> 00:44:00,929
"My dad's gonna kill me."

838
00:44:01,639 --> 00:44:02,890
[laughing]

839
00:44:03,807 --> 00:44:05,726
-[funky music playing]
-Come on.

840
00:44:06,644 --> 00:44:07,978
Let's go, baby!

841
00:44:09,313 --> 00:44:11,774
[John Lauro] Warren Flagg is
a former FBI agent.

842
00:44:11,857 --> 00:44:13,067
He's my best friend.

843
00:44:14,193 --> 00:44:16,445
I would trust Warren with my life.

844
00:44:17,237 --> 00:44:19,740
[Warren] John Lauro brought me
into this case.

845
00:44:20,616 --> 00:44:24,161
He needed somebody that could match wits

846
00:44:24,244 --> 00:44:27,790
with Tim Donaghy and also prepare him

847
00:44:27,873 --> 00:44:31,085
for the most grueling interrogation

848
00:44:31,168 --> 00:44:33,337
any cooperator would ever have.

849
00:44:34,338 --> 00:44:36,090
So he called the Flagg Man.

850
00:44:37,383 --> 00:44:40,260
[John Lauro] The worst thing
you could do in Tim's situation

851
00:44:40,344 --> 00:44:42,554
is cooperate and not tell the whole truth,

852
00:44:42,638 --> 00:44:44,807
because you get caught in one lie,
this is over.

853
00:44:44,890 --> 00:44:48,268
And you're going to jail
for ten, 15 years. I don't know.

854
00:44:48,852 --> 00:44:52,147
So I said to Tim,
"You can't be a little pregnant."

855
00:44:52,731 --> 00:44:54,817
"You're either pregnant, or you're not."

856
00:44:55,317 --> 00:44:59,947
"A little pregnant,
they're gonna cut your gonads off."

857
00:45:00,030 --> 00:45:01,031
[music ends]

858
00:45:01,115 --> 00:45:03,492
[low ominous music playing]

859
00:45:03,575 --> 00:45:05,577
[Tim] First meeting with the FBI,

860
00:45:06,286 --> 00:45:08,497
Lauro came in with Phil Scala.

861
00:45:09,415 --> 00:45:12,793
Immediately, Scala stood up,
leaned across the table

862
00:45:12,876 --> 00:45:15,129
and pointed his finger
right in my face and said,

863
00:45:15,212 --> 00:45:18,132
"Just so you know, I got John Gotti."

864
00:45:18,215 --> 00:45:21,677
"You're sitting in the same fucking seat
that John Gotti sat in."

865
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:25,556
"If you think you're gonna lie to me,
get the fuck up and leave right now."

866
00:45:26,390 --> 00:45:29,268
[Phil] It was about him saying
that he never threw a game.

867
00:45:30,018 --> 00:45:33,939
"Even though I bet, I never threw a game."
And I says, "Tim, that's bullshit."

868
00:45:35,107 --> 00:45:39,987
The fact that you're betting on the game,
your judgment is impaired and tainted.

869
00:45:40,988 --> 00:45:43,031
[Tim] They had
several United States attorneys

870
00:45:43,115 --> 00:45:43,949
in the room,

871
00:45:44,032 --> 00:45:47,453
FBI agents,
all grilling me about fixing games.

872
00:45:47,536 --> 00:45:49,788
-[ominous music continues]
-I said, "Listen."

873
00:45:50,914 --> 00:45:52,124
"I never fixed games."

874
00:45:52,791 --> 00:45:57,171
"I had one of the best percentages
calling-wise as an NBA referee."

875
00:45:57,671 --> 00:46:00,174
"I was rated third
out of a staff of 60 people."

876
00:46:01,008 --> 00:46:03,135
I said, "How could I be rated there

877
00:46:03,218 --> 00:46:04,386
and be fixing games?"

878
00:46:06,472 --> 00:46:07,598
[dramatic whoosh]

879
00:46:08,766 --> 00:46:11,477
[Phil] Many of the great authors
and philosophers say,

880
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,937
the first time you lie to yourself,

881
00:46:14,021 --> 00:46:17,524
and then you would lie to yourself
a second and third and fourth time,

882
00:46:17,608 --> 00:46:18,984
you become the lie.

883
00:46:19,067 --> 00:46:21,320
[ominous music continues]

884
00:46:22,196 --> 00:46:25,032
You're lying to your wife.
You're lying to your kids.

885
00:46:25,115 --> 00:46:26,533
You're lying to your parents.

886
00:46:26,617 --> 00:46:29,203
You're lying to the people
that you work with.

887
00:46:29,286 --> 00:46:30,788
You're lying to yourself.

888
00:46:31,288 --> 00:46:34,833
And you can never live a peaceful life

889
00:46:34,917 --> 00:46:37,795
when your life
has become nothing but a lie.

890
00:46:39,213 --> 00:46:44,259
In basketball, there are
at least three or four instances

891
00:46:44,343 --> 00:46:45,469
in any game

892
00:46:45,552 --> 00:46:47,513
when you have to utilize your judgment.

893
00:46:47,596 --> 00:46:49,681
[announcer 1] …determined to get by--

894
00:46:49,765 --> 00:46:52,810
And your judgment is tainted
because you bet on that game…

895
00:46:52,893 --> 00:46:56,396
[announcer 1] Tim Donaghy,
the outside official, made the call late…

896
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:59,316
[Phil] …you have to admit
you may have made a wrong call.

897
00:46:59,399 --> 00:47:01,652
[announcer 2] No, I…
I don't know what he saw.

898
00:47:02,653 --> 00:47:04,404
[Phil] And unless you get to that,

899
00:47:04,488 --> 00:47:06,949
you don't have a cooperation agreement.

900
00:47:08,700 --> 00:47:12,329
He came to terms with the fact
that his judgment was, in fact, tainted.

901
00:47:12,412 --> 00:47:13,914
[announcer 1] Wow. That's terrible.

902
00:47:13,997 --> 00:47:15,874
[Tim] I had to sign a document that said

903
00:47:15,958 --> 00:47:21,004
subconsciously I could have made calls
in the game based on the bets.

904
00:47:21,588 --> 00:47:25,300
Now I'm not sure what the hell that meant,
but at that time, I didn't care.

905
00:47:25,968 --> 00:47:28,887
I was signing anything. I was spent, gone.

906
00:47:28,971 --> 00:47:31,056
I just wanted
the whole thing to be over with.

907
00:47:31,139 --> 00:47:32,432
[dramatic music playing]

908
00:47:32,516 --> 00:47:35,686
[Phil] During that minimum
of three years that he was involved,

909
00:47:36,186 --> 00:47:38,647
he admitted betting on 100-plus games.

910
00:47:40,732 --> 00:47:43,485
But nobody in the NBA noticed anything.

911
00:47:44,069 --> 00:47:46,280
If he was throwing the games
and it was blatant,

912
00:47:46,363 --> 00:47:47,823
the commissioner would've known.

913
00:47:47,906 --> 00:47:50,868
His coworkers would have known.
The owners would have known.

914
00:47:50,951 --> 00:47:54,079
The players would have known.
They would've called attention to it then.

915
00:47:54,663 --> 00:47:59,251
Which was the reason why Tim was saying,
"Well, there were other people involved."

916
00:48:00,252 --> 00:48:02,754
And he believed
that it went all the way up the chain.

917
00:48:02,838 --> 00:48:06,174
Welcome
to the National Basketball Association.

918
00:48:06,258 --> 00:48:07,885
[crowd cheers]

919
00:48:07,968 --> 00:48:09,595
[dramatic whoosh]

920
00:48:09,678 --> 00:48:13,432
[Tim] Listen, I called
what the NBA wanted me to call.

921
00:48:13,515 --> 00:48:16,268
If they said,
"Go out and make sure, you know,

922
00:48:16,351 --> 00:48:18,020
you concentrate on this tonight,"

923
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,147
that's what I went out
and concentrated on.

924
00:48:20,230 --> 00:48:21,565
[intriguing music playing]

925
00:48:21,648 --> 00:48:24,860
[John Lauro] David Stern built the league
around a business model

926
00:48:25,444 --> 00:48:28,030
that would highlight certain key players,

927
00:48:28,113 --> 00:48:30,407
certain high-profile teams.

928
00:48:31,783 --> 00:48:33,827
Tim had this incredible insight

929
00:48:33,911 --> 00:48:38,957
into the connection between
the business model and the referees

930
00:48:39,041 --> 00:48:42,294
and the way they reffed games
in real time on the court,

931
00:48:42,377 --> 00:48:45,088
and that's what he's telling the FBI.

932
00:48:45,172 --> 00:48:46,256
[crowd cheers]

933
00:48:46,340 --> 00:48:49,259
[Tim] Every playoff game
meant tens of millions of dollars

934
00:48:49,343 --> 00:48:51,678
for the league, so they wanted the series

935
00:48:51,762 --> 00:48:54,806
to go towards seven games
as often as possible.

936
00:48:54,890 --> 00:48:58,810
If there was a sweep, it was not good
for the league's bottom line.

937
00:48:59,394 --> 00:49:03,023
[announcer 1] The Lakers,
facing a playoff elimination.

938
00:49:03,106 --> 00:49:07,152
The Kings, only one game away
from the NBA Finals…

939
00:49:07,903 --> 00:49:10,989
[Tim] I didn't referee
the Lakers-Kings playoff game.

940
00:49:11,073 --> 00:49:12,616
But that game has gone down

941
00:49:12,699 --> 00:49:16,119
as the worst officiated game
in the history of the NBA.

942
00:49:16,203 --> 00:49:18,622
-[crowd cheering] Defense!
-[announcer 1] Bibby able to--

943
00:49:18,705 --> 00:49:22,084
[announcer 2] Knocked to the ground,
and no foul called on that penetration.

944
00:49:22,167 --> 00:49:25,212
[announcer 1] Lakers hoping to take it
back to Sacramento for a game seven.

945
00:49:25,295 --> 00:49:27,965
That's number five on Webber.

946
00:49:28,048 --> 00:49:30,008
[announcer 2] And this is a terrible call.

947
00:49:30,092 --> 00:49:33,345
[announcer 3] He's in front of him,
and he's gonna come-- Oh! An elbow!

948
00:49:33,428 --> 00:49:35,430
[announcer 2] Yes.
He just ran over Mike Bibby.

949
00:49:35,514 --> 00:49:37,933
[announcer 1] Should have been
an offensive foul.

950
00:49:38,475 --> 00:49:40,769
[Tim] Those three guys
that refereed that game

951
00:49:40,852 --> 00:49:44,731
advance and get another bonus
after what they just did?

952
00:49:44,815 --> 00:49:45,691
[buzzer blaring]

953
00:49:45,774 --> 00:49:47,067
[announcer 1] Game seven,

954
00:49:47,150 --> 00:49:50,320
Sunday night, in Sacramento.

955
00:49:50,946 --> 00:49:54,157
[Tim] Where would you ever see
that happen? In what profession?

956
00:49:54,241 --> 00:49:56,243
[intriguing music continues and fades]

957
00:49:57,828 --> 00:49:58,996
[dramatic music playing]

958
00:49:59,079 --> 00:50:01,623
[Phil] A lot of the people
Tim was speaking about…

959
00:50:01,707 --> 00:50:03,500
[reporter] NBA commissioner David Stern…

960
00:50:03,583 --> 00:50:05,794
[Phil] …you know, there were
some significant names.

961
00:50:06,336 --> 00:50:09,548
I started receiving calls
from FBI headquarters saying,

962
00:50:09,631 --> 00:50:12,509
"We got another lead.
Take a look at this over here."

963
00:50:13,593 --> 00:50:18,306
We had referees who had associations
with management, owners, and players.

964
00:50:18,390 --> 00:50:20,350
We had ten referees we were looking at.

965
00:50:20,434 --> 00:50:24,104
-[dramatic music continues]
-Nine involved with casino gambling.

966
00:50:25,439 --> 00:50:29,067
Betting on sports, we had two.

967
00:50:29,943 --> 00:50:32,362
What the case agents wanted to do was see

968
00:50:32,446 --> 00:50:34,948
if we can corroborate
some of his allegations.

969
00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:39,703
We wanted to put a covert wire on Tim.

970
00:50:40,537 --> 00:50:42,205
[John Lauro] Tim was gonna be
a major player

971
00:50:42,289 --> 00:50:45,417
in a very, very significant
undercover operation.

972
00:50:46,752 --> 00:50:50,005
Tim would be wired up
and go back into the NBA

973
00:50:50,088 --> 00:50:51,923
as a confidential informant.

974
00:50:52,591 --> 00:50:56,928
[Warren] If you wired it up,
they could then expand the investigation.

975
00:50:57,012 --> 00:51:00,098
How many other people
that they may have been dealing with?

976
00:51:00,182 --> 00:51:02,225
It could have mushroomed.

977
00:51:02,309 --> 00:51:04,311
[music stops]

978
00:51:05,103 --> 00:51:07,105
[Phil] As an organized crime investigator,

979
00:51:07,189 --> 00:51:10,525
you don't talk to anybody
unless there's a need to know.

980
00:51:10,609 --> 00:51:12,360
[intriguing music playing]

981
00:51:12,444 --> 00:51:15,363
To me, at that point,
the NBA didn't need to know.

982
00:51:16,740 --> 00:51:19,701
But my supervisor,
he knew a lot about sports.

983
00:51:19,785 --> 00:51:21,995
He says,
"Phil, I think this is a good idea."

984
00:51:22,704 --> 00:51:25,040
We were advised that the commissioner

985
00:51:25,123 --> 00:51:28,251
would definitely assist
in unraveling this.

986
00:51:28,752 --> 00:51:30,087
I said, "All right."

987
00:51:30,587 --> 00:51:32,506
[intriguing music continues]

988
00:51:32,589 --> 00:51:35,717
David Stern, in his culture,
he was the boss for sure.

989
00:51:35,801 --> 00:51:37,302
Nobody questioned him.

990
00:51:37,928 --> 00:51:39,262
We go into his office.

991
00:51:40,764 --> 00:51:43,016
We sat around the table,
and he says, "Listen,

992
00:51:43,100 --> 00:51:45,602
we want to cooperate with you guys."

993
00:51:46,645 --> 00:51:49,439
"We'll give you the films.
You can speak to this person,

994
00:51:49,523 --> 00:51:53,110
and you can speak to that person,
and whatever you guys want, you have."

995
00:51:53,902 --> 00:51:56,488
They gave us access
to this, that, the other thing.

996
00:51:56,571 --> 00:51:58,824
We even interviewed observers.

997
00:51:58,907 --> 00:52:02,327
[reporter] Observers, whose identities
are kept from the officials,

998
00:52:02,410 --> 00:52:05,872
evaluate the performance
of each of the three game officials.

999
00:52:05,956 --> 00:52:07,999
And they said,
"There's nothing wrong here."

1000
00:52:08,083 --> 00:52:10,669
"The officiating is right on point."

1001
00:52:11,294 --> 00:52:14,005
At that point, you discharge
everything they have to say.

1002
00:52:14,089 --> 00:52:17,467
They're basically circling the wagons
and going scripted on you.

1003
00:52:18,135 --> 00:52:20,887
We got what they wanted to give us,
but it was bullshit.

1004
00:52:20,971 --> 00:52:23,849
-To us, it was bullshit.
-[intriguing music crescendos]

1005
00:52:23,932 --> 00:52:27,769
[printing press whirring]

1006
00:52:27,853 --> 00:52:30,981
[John Lauro]
As much as I respect Phil Scala,

1007
00:52:31,690 --> 00:52:34,067
he made a terrible misjudgment

1008
00:52:34,151 --> 00:52:36,736
by going to the NBA and telling them

1009
00:52:36,820 --> 00:52:40,323
that we have a ref
who has compromised the game.

1010
00:52:40,407 --> 00:52:44,536
[suspenseful music playing]

1011
00:52:48,915 --> 00:52:51,334
Phil Scala went into Stern's office.

1012
00:52:51,418 --> 00:52:53,503
Immediately following that,

1013
00:52:53,587 --> 00:52:57,507
they renegotiated all their contracts

1014
00:52:57,591 --> 00:53:02,012
with all the networks
that broadcasted NBA games.

1015
00:53:02,888 --> 00:53:06,266
He signed a deal for 7.4 billion dollars.

1016
00:53:07,267 --> 00:53:09,853
The NBA shouldn't have gotten that much.

1017
00:53:09,936 --> 00:53:11,813
They knew about a bad referee

1018
00:53:11,897 --> 00:53:15,025
and the possibility
of other bad referees going down.

1019
00:53:15,108 --> 00:53:19,404
But the network's, you know,
dealing with somebody who had information

1020
00:53:19,487 --> 00:53:22,866
and didn't tell the other side
what he knew,

1021
00:53:22,949 --> 00:53:25,869
which would have lowered
that price significantly.

1022
00:53:26,703 --> 00:53:28,997
So somebody got snookered.

1023
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:30,832
[suspenseful music intensifies]

1024
00:53:38,924 --> 00:53:40,926
[music stops]

1025
00:53:44,387 --> 00:53:47,599
[John Lauro] Tim was ready, willing,
and able to be wired up

1026
00:53:47,682 --> 00:53:52,437
and go into the depths of the NBA
to reveal the inside game.

1027
00:53:52,938 --> 00:53:54,314
[dramatic music playing]

1028
00:53:54,397 --> 00:53:55,857
Time was of the essence.

1029
00:53:57,234 --> 00:53:59,861
Because once the story is out there,

1030
00:53:59,945 --> 00:54:03,156
nobody's gonna talk to anybody.
Everybody's gonna be hunkered down.

1031
00:54:04,449 --> 00:54:05,992
And then, all of a sudden,

1032
00:54:07,244 --> 00:54:09,704
there was a leak in the press,

1033
00:54:10,205 --> 00:54:14,668
and it blew the cover off
of our undercover operation.

1034
00:54:18,338 --> 00:54:20,215
The irony is astounding.

1035
00:54:20,298 --> 00:54:23,802
The very person hired
to make the players abide by the rules

1036
00:54:23,885 --> 00:54:25,971
is suspected of cheating for money.

1037
00:54:26,054 --> 00:54:30,392
Allegations of betting and foul calls
by a veteran referee.

1038
00:54:30,475 --> 00:54:34,437
An NBA ref who may have been betting
on the very games he was calling.

1039
00:54:34,521 --> 00:54:37,107
[reporter] Longtime NBA referee,
Tim Donaghy, is…

1040
00:54:37,190 --> 00:54:40,277
[Tim] My face was
on every TV station across the country.

1041
00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:41,945
-Tim Donaghy.
-Tim Donaghy.

1042
00:54:42,028 --> 00:54:43,154
Tim Donaghy.

1043
00:54:43,238 --> 00:54:45,573
The story was published
in the New York Post.

1044
00:54:45,657 --> 00:54:47,492
It was just all over the news.

1045
00:54:47,575 --> 00:54:50,704
Well, it is front-page news all over town…

1046
00:54:50,787 --> 00:54:53,164
[John Lauro] The headline was, like,
"NBA games fixed."

1047
00:54:53,248 --> 00:54:56,334
-"NBA ref under investigation."
-[dramatic music continues]

1048
00:54:56,418 --> 00:54:59,296
Hate it for all the people involved.
It's not… It's not fun for anybody.

1049
00:54:59,379 --> 00:55:02,590
It's a very serious issue, and I'm sure
they'll… they'll handle it accordingly.

1050
00:55:02,674 --> 00:55:04,968
[man] This is one bad guy
who made a big mistake.

1051
00:55:05,051 --> 00:55:07,470
He's gonna pay for it.
The NBA will pay for it for a long time.

1052
00:55:10,682 --> 00:55:14,602
This is the most serious
and worst situation

1053
00:55:14,686 --> 00:55:17,063
that I have ever experienced.

1054
00:55:17,731 --> 00:55:19,524
[Tim] People were parked
in front of the house.

1055
00:55:19,607 --> 00:55:21,735
Helicopters flying over the house.

1056
00:55:21,818 --> 00:55:23,778
[Kim] We lived in a gated community,

1057
00:55:23,862 --> 00:55:27,324
but the press paid off the guard

1058
00:55:27,407 --> 00:55:29,367
to get into our neighborhood.

1059
00:55:29,451 --> 00:55:34,956
I was at a pub, and then all the TVs
started flashing up my picture.

1060
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:37,792
Some kid came over,
and he slapped the New York Post down.

1061
00:55:37,876 --> 00:55:41,129
My face was on the front page,
and he said, "Would you sign this for me?"

1062
00:55:41,212 --> 00:55:43,590
I was like, "Fuck."
And I signed it. [chuckles]

1063
00:55:43,673 --> 00:55:45,008
[dramatic music continues]

1064
00:55:45,592 --> 00:55:48,053
[Jimmy] News networks
were parked out front of my house.

1065
00:55:48,136 --> 00:55:51,222
If I walked my dog, they were there.
They were up my ass everywhere.

1066
00:55:52,098 --> 00:55:54,684
[John Lauro] I followed
all of the news reports.

1067
00:55:55,226 --> 00:55:59,022
I think the press
kind of got the bigger story.

1068
00:55:59,606 --> 00:56:02,275
[reporter 1] Former referee
Tim Donaghy's lawyers have served papers

1069
00:56:02,359 --> 00:56:05,528
that claim top NBA executives
influenced referees

1070
00:56:05,612 --> 00:56:07,989
to make calls to benefit favored teams.

1071
00:56:08,490 --> 00:56:11,284
He's a singing, cooperating witness

1072
00:56:11,368 --> 00:56:14,329
who is trying to get
as light a sentence as he can.

1073
00:56:14,412 --> 00:56:16,164
[reporter 2] There are
a couple possibilities.

1074
00:56:16,247 --> 00:56:19,292
A dirty guy who started trying
to deflect the attention from him

1075
00:56:19,376 --> 00:56:21,127
to say everybody else was doing it.

1076
00:56:21,211 --> 00:56:24,547
Or the NBA is in massive trouble.

1077
00:56:25,173 --> 00:56:28,927
[David Stern] The accusations, you know,
that we manipulate games,

1078
00:56:29,010 --> 00:56:33,932
those accusations, or the facts
underlying those, they're false. We don't.

1079
00:56:34,015 --> 00:56:38,269
People said we're a week away
from the NBA becoming

1080
00:56:38,353 --> 00:56:40,355
the World Wrestling Association.

1081
00:56:40,438 --> 00:56:43,733
And now you've got coaches,
and they would say,

1082
00:56:43,817 --> 00:56:45,568
"I knew that game was stolen."

1083
00:56:45,652 --> 00:56:48,238
I thought that was
one of the worst officiated games

1084
00:56:48,321 --> 00:56:49,656
I've ever seen. Ever.

1085
00:56:49,739 --> 00:56:52,534
I thought it was
an absolute officiating travesty.

1086
00:56:52,617 --> 00:56:56,162
Or players saying,
"I knew this guy was leaning on me."

1087
00:56:56,663 --> 00:56:58,790
People pay good money
to come watch these athletes play.

1088
00:56:58,873 --> 00:57:00,625
They trying to take over
the… [bleep] …game.

1089
00:57:01,376 --> 00:57:05,213
[Phil] But we didn't have
the proactive ability

1090
00:57:05,296 --> 00:57:07,757
to get that on tape or corroborate it.

1091
00:57:08,508 --> 00:57:10,051
The gag order was out.

1092
00:57:10,927 --> 00:57:13,888
[John Lauro] In order to really understand
this case,

1093
00:57:13,972 --> 00:57:16,474
you have to know how that leak happened.

1094
00:57:16,975 --> 00:57:19,811
I don't know that Stern leaked the story.

1095
00:57:19,894 --> 00:57:22,897
I don't know that,
and I'm not gonna say that.

1096
00:57:23,773 --> 00:57:27,527
It was not in our interest to do that
or in the FBI's interest to do that.

1097
00:57:28,278 --> 00:57:32,407
But it was in the interest
of the NBA to leak the story.

1098
00:57:33,741 --> 00:57:35,827
It put an end to the investigation.

1099
00:57:36,411 --> 00:57:38,413
[music quietens]

1100
00:57:55,430 --> 00:57:58,850
[reporter 1] In Brooklyn today, a former
National Basketball Association referee

1101
00:57:58,933 --> 00:58:03,980
pleaded guilty to two charges related
to his role in an NBA gambling scandal.

1102
00:58:04,481 --> 00:58:07,400
Tim Donaghy admitted
to betting on games he officiated.

1103
00:58:08,401 --> 00:58:11,279
[Tim] I plead guilty
to gambling and wire fraud.

1104
00:58:11,821 --> 00:58:14,240
You know,
I definitely did something wrong.

1105
00:58:14,324 --> 00:58:15,617
It's probably fair.

1106
00:58:16,534 --> 00:58:18,244
[reporter 2] This afternoon
in federal court,

1107
00:58:18,328 --> 00:58:20,330
42-year-old James Battista

1108
00:58:20,413 --> 00:58:23,583
and 41-year-old Thomas Martino
were charged with being

1109
00:58:23,666 --> 00:58:27,086
the two men who benefited
from Donaghy's inside information.

1110
00:58:27,670 --> 00:58:29,839
[Tommy] I thought
about pleading not guilty.

1111
00:58:30,340 --> 00:58:32,800
Battista kept telling me,
"They don't know nothing."

1112
00:58:32,884 --> 00:58:34,219
"They don't know nothing."

1113
00:58:34,802 --> 00:58:37,931
Because Battista was not saying a word
no matter what.

1114
00:58:38,014 --> 00:58:41,351
-[reporter 3] Anything to say?
-No, he doesn't right now. Thanks.

1115
00:58:41,434 --> 00:58:44,312
[Tommy] And his objective
was for me not to either.

1116
00:58:45,021 --> 00:58:47,815
[soft melody playing]

1117
00:58:47,899 --> 00:58:52,237
[Jimmy] I took the sharpest guy I had
when it came to criminal defense,

1118
00:58:52,320 --> 00:58:53,821
which was Jack McMahon.

1119
00:58:53,905 --> 00:58:55,949
McMahon. M-C-M-A-H-O-N.

1120
00:58:56,032 --> 00:58:57,325
-[reporter 4] First name?
-Jack.

1121
00:58:57,408 --> 00:58:58,451
[reporter 4] Jack. Thanks.

1122
00:58:58,535 --> 00:59:02,372
I always would take the illegal gambling
because I gambled for a living.

1123
00:59:02,455 --> 00:59:03,957
I claimed it in taxes!

1124
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:08,211
But the fraud and the wire fraud
that was on the table, federally,

1125
00:59:08,294 --> 00:59:09,879
and Jimmy was fucked for life.

1126
00:59:09,963 --> 00:59:11,798
So my thing is, "No, no, no."

1127
00:59:11,881 --> 00:59:14,050
"I'm not taking it.
I'd rather go to trial."

1128
00:59:14,133 --> 00:59:16,594
[soft melody continues]

1129
00:59:16,678 --> 00:59:20,932
[Tommy] What changed my strategy
was when the prosecuting attorney

1130
00:59:21,474 --> 00:59:26,646
was gonna have my mom go up in front
of a grand jury, and she had cancer.

1131
00:59:27,689 --> 00:59:29,774
They were bleeding my family dry.

1132
00:59:30,858 --> 00:59:32,860
My brother went up. I went up.

1133
00:59:33,403 --> 00:59:36,614
But I was not gonna have them
bring my mom up.

1134
00:59:37,282 --> 00:59:38,616
So I just went in.

1135
00:59:39,242 --> 00:59:40,952
I'd had enough. I'm glad I did.

1136
00:59:43,830 --> 00:59:45,707
I plead guilty to wire fraud.

1137
00:59:46,332 --> 00:59:48,626
Using my cell phones to cheat the NBA.

1138
00:59:53,339 --> 00:59:56,926
I got, "Tommy perjured-himself Martino."

1139
00:59:57,010 --> 00:59:59,637
"Timmy Elvis-the-rat Donaghy."

1140
01:00:00,430 --> 01:00:02,348
When push came to shove,

1141
01:00:03,266 --> 01:00:04,934
they… they weren't cranberries.

1142
01:00:05,977 --> 01:00:07,312
They weren't cranberries.

1143
01:00:07,395 --> 01:00:08,521
They folded.

1144
01:00:09,647 --> 01:00:11,941
[wedding guests laughing]

1145
01:00:12,025 --> 01:00:13,901
[Jimmy] The only one left was me

1146
01:00:14,694 --> 01:00:16,654
and my lawyer, Jack McMahon.

1147
01:00:16,738 --> 01:00:18,740
I said, "Just fucking hold out."

1148
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:20,158
"They'll cave."

1149
01:00:23,745 --> 01:00:25,747
[dramatic music playing]

1150
01:00:37,634 --> 01:00:39,344
[inaudible]

1151
01:00:42,221 --> 01:00:45,058
I was tired, exhausted.

1152
01:00:45,141 --> 01:00:48,353
All of a sudden, Jack's ripping them,
calling my phone.

1153
01:00:48,436 --> 01:00:51,189
Someone was calling Jack
for me to take a deal.

1154
01:00:52,357 --> 01:00:55,735
So it was, "All you gotta do
is plead to the illegal gambling."

1155
01:00:56,653 --> 01:00:58,738
They dropped the most significant things.

1156
01:00:59,739 --> 01:01:01,741
[dramatic whoosh]

1157
01:01:03,034 --> 01:01:06,079
I'm happy, but I'm thinking to myself,

1158
01:01:06,621 --> 01:01:09,374
"Holy shit.
David Stern controls everybody."

1159
01:01:09,457 --> 01:01:11,125
[dramatic music continues]

1160
01:01:17,423 --> 01:01:19,384
The NBA did not want this to go to trial,

1161
01:01:19,467 --> 01:01:22,220
whether it was me
or whether it was Battista.

1162
01:01:22,303 --> 01:01:24,055
There's no doubt in my mind

1163
01:01:24,138 --> 01:01:27,308
that that trial would have been
a bloodbath for the NBA. No doubt.

1164
01:01:27,392 --> 01:01:28,393
[crowd cheering]

1165
01:01:28,476 --> 01:01:30,937
[Phil] People wouldn't have trusted
the game anymore.

1166
01:01:31,020 --> 01:01:34,190
Every time their team lost,
you blame it on the official.

1167
01:01:34,273 --> 01:01:35,650
Whether it was right or wrong.

1168
01:01:36,943 --> 01:01:40,571
Once you lose integrity,
it's difficult to get it back.

1169
01:01:41,989 --> 01:01:44,826
[reporter] Let me read the statement
from NBA commissioner David Stern.

1170
01:01:44,909 --> 01:01:47,995
"Tim Donaghy repeated his allegations
against his former colleagues,

1171
01:01:48,079 --> 01:01:50,289
NBA referees, as well as the NBA."

1172
01:01:50,373 --> 01:01:53,000
"Those allegations
have been fully investigated by the FBI

1173
01:01:53,084 --> 01:01:54,585
and the US attorney's office."

1174
01:01:54,669 --> 01:01:57,338
"In addition, the NBA appointed
Lawrence Pedowitz to lead

1175
01:01:57,422 --> 01:02:00,800
a comprehensive, independent review
of the NBA's officiating program,

1176
01:02:00,883 --> 01:02:02,635
and Mr. Pedowitz's review revealed

1177
01:02:02,719 --> 01:02:05,555
that the NBA's core of values,
neutrality, and accountability

1178
01:02:05,638 --> 01:02:10,476
were not compromised
by anyone other than Mr. Donaghy." Wow.

1179
01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:11,894
[music stops]

1180
01:02:14,188 --> 01:02:16,691
-[reporter 1] Were you inside?
-[reporter 2] I was not. Were you?

1181
01:02:16,774 --> 01:02:18,609
[reporter 1] Yeah, he got 15 months.

1182
01:02:18,693 --> 01:02:21,571
[reporter 2] Fifteen months is
what I hear. Three years probation.

1183
01:02:21,654 --> 01:02:25,491
[reporters chatting indistinctly]

1184
01:02:33,249 --> 01:02:39,255
[cameras clicking]

1185
01:02:41,048 --> 01:02:43,050
[solemn music playing]

1186
01:02:49,682 --> 01:02:52,810
[Tim] My sentence was 15 months
in a Pensacola federal prison.

1187
01:02:53,478 --> 01:02:56,647
I thought maybe
without having a prior criminal record

1188
01:02:56,731 --> 01:03:00,193
and, you know, basically cooperating
with the government

1189
01:03:00,276 --> 01:03:02,487
that, you know,
maybe I would get probation.

1190
01:03:03,196 --> 01:03:07,033
Not in my wildest dreams did I think
I was gonna go to jail for 15 months.

1191
01:03:09,410 --> 01:03:11,704
[Tommy] They gave me a year and a day.

1192
01:03:13,164 --> 01:03:16,918
I went to MDC Brooklyn.
Battista was there with me.

1193
01:03:17,001 --> 01:03:18,252
[solemn music continues]

1194
01:03:18,336 --> 01:03:20,338
And I got 15 months which…

1195
01:03:20,421 --> 01:03:21,547
Thank you, Lord.

1196
01:03:27,637 --> 01:03:31,140
How do you explain to a five-year-old
that their dad's going to prison?

1197
01:03:31,224 --> 01:03:35,436
You know? [chuckles tearfully]
I told them that Dad made a mistake

1198
01:03:35,520 --> 01:03:38,481
and he took some money
and he wasn't supposed to,

1199
01:03:38,564 --> 01:03:41,025
so he had to go to time-out camp.

1200
01:03:42,401 --> 01:03:44,278
[laughing, sniffles]

1201
01:03:44,362 --> 01:03:45,530
Yeah.

1202
01:03:47,740 --> 01:03:49,283
[Tim] Kim had moved out.

1203
01:03:50,660 --> 01:03:52,703
She said she wanted a divorce.

1204
01:03:56,374 --> 01:03:59,001
I remember driving
over the Skyway Bridge thinking,

1205
01:03:59,585 --> 01:04:02,255
you know,
"I should just get out and jump."

1206
01:04:03,422 --> 01:04:05,967
[solemn music continues]

1207
01:04:08,594 --> 01:04:10,596
[music fades]

1208
01:04:12,515 --> 01:04:14,809
[Phil] Looking at it from the big picture,

1209
01:04:15,393 --> 01:04:18,145
for what he did and lessons learnt,

1210
01:04:18,229 --> 01:04:21,983
I think he got off… easy.

1211
01:04:22,066 --> 01:04:24,777
You were dealing with the NBA,

1212
01:04:24,861 --> 01:04:26,404
with a lot of power,

1213
01:04:26,487 --> 01:04:28,990
a lot of clout, a lot of money.

1214
01:04:29,073 --> 01:04:32,201
Stern amassed a small army to make sure

1215
01:04:32,285 --> 01:04:36,289
this didn't cause significant damage,
and you wanna know something?

1216
01:04:36,372 --> 01:04:37,832
He encapsulated it.

1217
01:04:39,417 --> 01:04:44,755
And also, our investigation
into dozens of areas of information

1218
01:04:44,839 --> 01:04:46,299
that we got from Tim

1219
01:04:46,382 --> 01:04:48,926
led us to the point that it was clear

1220
01:04:49,010 --> 01:04:51,679
that we were not going
to indict anybody else.

1221
01:04:51,762 --> 01:04:54,140
[ominous music playing]

1222
01:04:54,223 --> 01:04:57,977
[Jimmy] Was Phil working for the NBA?
He wasn't working for the government,

1223
01:04:58,060 --> 01:05:00,688
because why didn't they
go after everybody else?

1224
01:05:01,606 --> 01:05:05,192
Sixty NBA referees
were fucking questioned on gambling.

1225
01:05:05,693 --> 01:05:08,404
-Forty-five admitted to it, yes?
-[gates slamming shut]

1226
01:05:11,115 --> 01:05:13,659
[shouting] Did Phil
and the fucking boys go after them?

1227
01:05:13,743 --> 01:05:16,787
Uh-uh. Why? Big Daddy Stern said,

1228
01:05:16,871 --> 01:05:20,458
"Put this bitch to bed!"
They could not get it out.

1229
01:05:20,541 --> 01:05:22,543
[ominous music continues]

1230
01:05:24,837 --> 01:05:28,716
[producer] Stern offered you a job
in the course of the investigation.

1231
01:05:28,799 --> 01:05:29,717
Is that true?

1232
01:05:30,217 --> 01:05:32,595
[chuckles] He pulls me…
Stern pulls me aside.

1233
01:05:32,678 --> 01:05:34,555
He says, "You know,
I could use people like you."

1234
01:05:35,431 --> 01:05:38,184
Now, was… was I looking for a job?

1235
01:05:38,267 --> 01:05:42,355
Would I ever entertain a job
from somebody I was investigating?

1236
01:05:42,438 --> 01:05:43,981
Not even close.

1237
01:05:44,899 --> 01:05:47,985
[Jimmy] They gave Tim his pension.
He got minimal time.

1238
01:05:50,363 --> 01:05:51,614
[ominous music continues]

1239
01:05:53,699 --> 01:05:57,286
It's make it simple.
He was a rogue official.

1240
01:05:57,370 --> 01:05:59,747
Listen, anything that Battista says,

1241
01:05:59,830 --> 01:06:00,915
he's full of shit.

1242
01:06:00,998 --> 01:06:03,834
Nothing that comes out
of that guy's mouth is the truth.

1243
01:06:03,918 --> 01:06:05,503
We think we have here

1244
01:06:06,128 --> 01:06:08,631
a rogue, isolated criminal.

1245
01:06:09,131 --> 01:06:11,801
Most of the refs, we believed,

1246
01:06:11,884 --> 01:06:16,597
were honest
in calling the game as they had seen it.

1247
01:06:16,681 --> 01:06:19,767
As far as you know, you were
the only ref who was placing bets?

1248
01:06:19,850 --> 01:06:21,686
As far as I understand, yes.

1249
01:06:21,769 --> 01:06:23,062
[music stops]

1250
01:06:23,145 --> 01:06:25,982
I can't stand informants,
and I can't stand rats,

1251
01:06:26,065 --> 01:06:28,818
but I really can't stand people
that can't tell the truth.

1252
01:06:28,901 --> 01:06:31,153
And it was a cover-up from the beginning.

1253
01:06:31,237 --> 01:06:34,782
[reporter 1] The NBA already hurting
due to referee Tim Donaghy's confession.

1254
01:06:34,865 --> 01:06:38,369
Phone records show that Donaghy
called a second referee many times

1255
01:06:38,452 --> 01:06:40,413
during the 2006-2007 season.

1256
01:06:40,496 --> 01:06:43,833
[reporter 2] During the time Donaghy
was betting on games, he made 134 calls

1257
01:06:43,916 --> 01:06:47,712
to Scott Foster before and after games.

1258
01:06:47,795 --> 01:06:51,549
I think that Donaghy had another person
he was working with, okay?

1259
01:06:51,632 --> 01:06:54,593
There's another NBA official.
His name was Scott Foster.

1260
01:06:54,677 --> 01:06:57,596
-[intriguing music playing]
-I look at Timmy's phone records,

1261
01:06:58,347 --> 01:07:00,599
and, like, on 42 out of 45 games,

1262
01:07:00,683 --> 01:07:04,687
Timmy and Scott talked
before games and after games.

1263
01:07:04,770 --> 01:07:06,689
A few times at halftime too.

1264
01:07:07,940 --> 01:07:10,401
Did it ever come out
of Timmy's mouth to me

1265
01:07:10,484 --> 01:07:12,611
that it was Scott Foster? Never did.

1266
01:07:12,695 --> 01:07:15,531
But from Tommy, I said,
"Who the fuck is this guy?"

1267
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:19,618
[Tommy] I was there a couple times
when Timmy called Scott Foster.

1268
01:07:20,119 --> 01:07:23,622
I don't know what they were talking about.
He would leave the room to talk to Scott.

1269
01:07:24,623 --> 01:07:26,917
[Tim] Foster and I were very good friends.

1270
01:07:27,001 --> 01:07:29,336
Probably talked, you know,
strangely as it sounds,

1271
01:07:29,420 --> 01:07:31,297
a couple of times a day on the phone.

1272
01:07:32,089 --> 01:07:35,176
There were so many phone calls
for no other reason

1273
01:07:35,259 --> 01:07:37,803
other than just joking around
and having fun

1274
01:07:37,887 --> 01:07:39,764
and talking about different things.

1275
01:07:40,639 --> 01:07:42,349
Foster had no idea what was going on,

1276
01:07:42,433 --> 01:07:45,811
and the FBI did a full investigation
and cleared him.

1277
01:07:45,895 --> 01:07:47,563
He had nothing to do with this.

1278
01:07:49,023 --> 01:07:52,902
[announcer] Scott Foster and Pat Fraher
are discussing this.

1279
01:07:52,985 --> 01:07:55,112
[Jimmy] It's something
that should have been addressed.

1280
01:07:55,196 --> 01:07:58,032
Scott's an NBA official,
still reffing in playoff games right now.

1281
01:07:58,115 --> 01:08:01,077
This is a Scott Foster call.
He calls this play.

1282
01:08:01,160 --> 01:08:05,331
How can you call that a foul
on Jae Crowder? And Scott Foster did!

1283
01:08:05,414 --> 01:08:08,918
Every time I saw him on games, I'm like,
"That motherfucking cocksucker."

1284
01:08:09,001 --> 01:08:12,713
[reporter] In other news today,
NBA referee Scott Foster was not charged

1285
01:08:12,797 --> 01:08:16,133
in the league's betting scandal,
and the Pedowitz Report confirmed

1286
01:08:16,217 --> 01:08:19,261
that Foster was not involved
in Donaghy's misconduct.

1287
01:08:20,221 --> 01:08:24,809
[Kim] I know why the Fosters
had to distance themselves from us.

1288
01:08:25,392 --> 01:08:30,147
I considered them
one of our closest family friends.

1289
01:08:30,731 --> 01:08:35,611
After everything went down, I never heard
from Scott or Paula Foster ever again.

1290
01:08:36,195 --> 01:08:39,073
I'm pretty sure that the NBA probably…

1291
01:08:40,407 --> 01:08:42,701
-[chuckles emotionally]
-[intriguing music continues]

1292
01:08:42,785 --> 01:08:45,037
I'm sorry, I need a second.

1293
01:08:45,121 --> 01:08:46,831
Can I stand up? [exhales sharply]

1294
01:08:51,961 --> 01:08:53,963
[music stops]

1295
01:09:06,016 --> 01:09:07,643
[gloomy music playing]

1296
01:09:07,726 --> 01:09:09,728
[birds chirping]

1297
01:09:13,566 --> 01:09:16,152
I remember saying to Flagg, um,

1298
01:09:16,652 --> 01:09:19,196
you know, "I don't know
what I'm gonna do in my life."

1299
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:22,241
"I don't know how I'll support my kids.
No one's gonna want to be around me."

1300
01:09:22,324 --> 01:09:27,079
He says, "Listen. You just, you know,
continue to admit what you did was wrong."

1301
01:09:27,163 --> 01:09:29,707
"Everything's gonna work out."
He was right.

1302
01:09:31,083 --> 01:09:33,419
[machinery whirring]

1303
01:09:34,712 --> 01:09:37,923
I'm coming out of jail in 2009.

1304
01:09:38,007 --> 01:09:39,341
Tim Donaghy here to discuss

1305
01:09:39,425 --> 01:09:41,927
the Chicago Bulls
and Miami Heat game four.

1306
01:09:42,011 --> 01:09:43,387
I sold sports picks.

1307
01:09:43,470 --> 01:09:45,264
I hope to share my story with others…

1308
01:09:45,347 --> 01:09:49,393
-I worked at a gambling treatment center.
-[announcer] Come on, ref, out of the way!

1309
01:09:49,476 --> 01:09:51,729
[Tim] Whatever I needed to do, I did.

1310
01:09:51,812 --> 01:09:53,480
[speaking indistinctly]

1311
01:09:54,106 --> 01:09:56,442
Eventually started investing
in real estate

1312
01:09:56,525 --> 01:09:59,403
and basically being a landlord.

1313
01:09:59,486 --> 01:10:01,614
[machinery whirring]

1314
01:10:01,697 --> 01:10:06,160
[John Lauro] The federal government wanted
to know how much money Tim made.

1315
01:10:06,744 --> 01:10:09,079
I don't know
what it worked out to, 35, 40,000.

1316
01:10:11,498 --> 01:10:15,377
[Warren] It was shocking to me
how much money…

1317
01:10:15,461 --> 01:10:18,589
[chuckles] …that he got for what he did.

1318
01:10:19,632 --> 01:10:22,718
Millions of dollars
were being made by the mob.

1319
01:10:23,802 --> 01:10:26,722
He left hundreds of thousands
on the table.

1320
01:10:28,599 --> 01:10:30,768
[Tim] If you're filming my new house,

1321
01:10:30,851 --> 01:10:33,646
the Range Rover,
I don't want someone thinking,

1322
01:10:33,729 --> 01:10:35,689
"God, this guy's supposed
to be destitute."

1323
01:10:35,773 --> 01:10:38,525
"Where the fuck's this guy getting
all this fucking money?"

1324
01:10:38,609 --> 01:10:39,818
You know what I mean?

1325
01:10:41,487 --> 01:10:44,990
[producer] I think that your concern
that you would appear well-off

1326
01:10:45,074 --> 01:10:47,701
is only problematic if you made

1327
01:10:47,785 --> 01:10:50,537
more money than you say you did.

1328
01:10:50,621 --> 01:10:51,664
-Right.
-[producer] Right?

1329
01:10:51,747 --> 01:10:52,831
Sure.

1330
01:10:52,915 --> 01:10:56,502
[producer] Um… Did you make more money
than you said you did?

1331
01:10:56,585 --> 01:10:57,461
I don't know.

1332
01:10:57,544 --> 01:10:59,046
[gloomy music continues]

1333
01:11:02,258 --> 01:11:04,260
[music fades]

1334
01:11:05,177 --> 01:11:07,388
[Tommy] A lot of money was exchanged,

1335
01:11:07,471 --> 01:11:09,765
and we had a lot of fun…

1336
01:11:12,226 --> 01:11:15,062
and… we got caught.

1337
01:11:17,231 --> 01:11:20,276
I hope when people see this
that they can see that I was real

1338
01:11:20,359 --> 01:11:21,318
and I

1339
01:11:21,902 --> 01:11:22,945
told the truth

1340
01:11:23,028 --> 01:11:24,655
throughout the whole thing.

1341
01:11:24,738 --> 01:11:26,365
[emotional music playing]

1342
01:11:26,448 --> 01:11:29,159
[Jimmy] Listen, I was fixing NBA games.

1343
01:11:29,243 --> 01:11:30,411
I know I was.

1344
01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:33,580
You can't tell the truth. That's fine.

1345
01:11:33,664 --> 01:11:36,250
I go to bed every night,
I sleep like a baby.

1346
01:11:37,418 --> 01:11:40,045
[Phil] I think as he grows old
and grows with wisdom,

1347
01:11:40,129 --> 01:11:43,090
he can look at the big picture
and say, "You know what?"

1348
01:11:43,173 --> 01:11:45,175
"I didn't do the right job here."

1349
01:11:45,718 --> 01:11:47,720
And somebody will say,
"Well, that's a fix."

1350
01:11:48,846 --> 01:11:52,558
There will come a time
when he grows wise, and he'll say, "Okay."

1351
01:11:53,267 --> 01:11:54,685
But that's for him to say.

1352
01:11:56,020 --> 01:11:58,272
He'll never ever admit it.

1353
01:11:58,355 --> 01:12:01,567
Not on his deathbed.
He'll never admit that.

1354
01:12:02,151 --> 01:12:04,445
No one will ever know but Tim.

1355
01:12:04,528 --> 01:12:06,196
[emotional music continues]

1356
01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:09,241
[Tim] You know, I think I'd be lying
if I said I wish I wasn't still

1357
01:12:09,325 --> 01:12:12,661
running up and down the floor
with the greatest athletes in the world.

1358
01:12:12,745 --> 01:12:15,372
And a lot of these guys
that I officiated with,

1359
01:12:15,456 --> 01:12:18,542
I felt like they were great friends,
and it's difficult knowing

1360
01:12:18,625 --> 01:12:20,794
that it's something I kind of threw away.

1361
01:12:22,171 --> 01:12:24,214
You know, you wish you still were there.

1362
01:12:24,298 --> 01:12:26,300
[emotional music continues]

1363
01:12:36,518 --> 01:12:40,439
[producer] I had asked you if you made
more money than you told people,

1364
01:12:40,522 --> 01:12:43,484
and you said you didn't know.
Is that honest?

1365
01:12:43,984 --> 01:12:45,569
[sucks teeth] I don't recall saying that.

1366
01:12:45,652 --> 01:12:48,030
If I said that,
maybe I didn't understand the question.

1367
01:12:48,113 --> 01:12:51,825
[producer] Okay. Did you make
more money than you said you did?

1368
01:12:51,909 --> 01:12:52,993
Absolutely not.

1369
01:12:53,827 --> 01:12:55,829
[whimsical electronic music playing]

1370
01:13:23,732 --> 01:13:25,734
[music fades]

1371
01:13:25,818 --> 01:13:28,404
Allegations against one basketball ref

1372
01:13:28,487 --> 01:13:30,280
of betting the outcome of games

1373
01:13:30,364 --> 01:13:31,907
is rocking the NBA.

1374
01:13:32,783 --> 01:13:35,160
[Tim] Man, did I fuck my life up.

1375
01:13:35,661 --> 01:13:37,079
[ominous music playing]

1376
01:13:37,162 --> 01:13:41,959
Just like the feel-good hit of the summer,
the Manti Te'o story isn't real.

1377
01:13:42,042 --> 01:13:44,211
[commentator] A cruel, twisted hoax.

1378
01:13:45,629 --> 01:13:48,799
It was the longest winning streak
in history of sport.

1379
01:13:48,882 --> 01:13:50,801
[announcer] This is the finest day

1380
01:13:50,884 --> 01:13:53,512
in the history of Australian sports!

1381
01:13:53,595 --> 01:13:56,765
[man 1] AND1 was making
millions of dollars.

1382
01:13:56,849 --> 01:13:58,434
But did they respect us?

1383
01:13:59,017 --> 01:14:01,437
[man 2] AND1 basketball, baby!

1384
01:14:01,937 --> 01:14:04,773
[Jimmy] Shut your fucking mouth.
Keep it between us.

1385
01:14:05,399 --> 01:14:07,484
Stick to the fucking story.

1386
01:14:08,068 --> 01:14:09,611
[anchor 1] It doesn't get any stranger…

1387
01:14:09,695 --> 01:14:11,864
[anchor 2] Donaghy is
under investigation by…

1388
01:14:11,947 --> 01:14:14,408
[anchor 3] It's front-page news
all over town.

1389
01:14:15,284 --> 01:14:20,372
She physically did not exist outside
of being Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend.

1390
01:14:22,124 --> 01:14:24,793
And I was like,
"Boy, that would be fucking crazy…

1391
01:14:24,877 --> 01:14:26,753
[laughing] …if it weren't true!"

1392
01:14:27,421 --> 01:14:29,423
[music fades]