NY Times Reporter: Current professional athletes caught in sports betting dragnets, not prosecuted
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1 min readFeb 5, 2016
James Glanz, reporter for the NY Times, has been investigating sports betting and daily fantasy sports, told FiveThirtyEight that during his reporting, he has uncovered a startling fact: “The government routinely finds the names of active professional athletes when it takes down gambling ring… And in ring after ring, in this country, active players are constantly caught up in these dragnets that become criminal prosecutions,” Glantz told the FiveThirtyEight team.
“Because the players are generally just betting, they’re never named,” Glantz said.
