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Tim sits down with Jimmy Battista and Tommy Martino hoping to find out new information about the relationship between referees Tim Donaghy and Scott Foster. Per an account in New York magazine in 2015, the NBA somehow persuaded Random House to kill the book. The big problem, Battista said, was that the betting markets appeared to be getting wise to the emergence of an astonishingly accurate NBA handicapper. A close observer of basketball, the gambler had become acutely curious after suffering losses on Donaghy-reffed games during that season. There's a defined trading session. "I refuse to comment on him. And Battista, perhaps surprisingly, perhaps not smartly, gave him the truth. Phone records of gamblers said to have connections with the Gambino crime family were obtained and analyzed, phone numbers traced back to names. But at the time of the visit, in late 2007, Kulle said, the men were close. Donaghy and. Move along. The whole thing had been merely insinuated, a matter of strong innuendo. James Battista, who was charged as a co-conspirator in the 2007 case, told HBO's "Real Sports" that he and Donaghy bet on 47 games over four months and won 37 times. Donaghy faced 25 years in prison and $500,000 in fines. One of Rufo's business partners in the gyms was his old Animals colleague Rhino Ruggieri. It was January 2007. After learning about the suspicious circumstances surrounding the leak of the original Donaghy story and Jimmy Battista's plea deal, the crew investigates the most . He'd been raptly listening to the referee's story -- the gambling, the cash, the secrecy, the corruption, the endless search by human beings to gain an edge, the gross opportunism that seemed almost contagious, the almost shockingly easy fixing of a major American sport -- but now there was one big thing on Kulle's mind, and it wasn't the moral of the story. I graduated high school by the skin of my teeth cause I didnt give a f**k, Jimmy admitted in Untold, before adding he saw a drastically different life once he began working as a waiter locally. That never really flew with us." If the pick missed, the ref owed nothing; Battista would eat the loss. One, Johnny, lived in Jersey. By now the spreads were moving violently. That was obvious. At the time, she told herself the money was from golf-course betting. Kim filed for divorce in late 2007, a few months after the scandal became public. They were an organized crime squad, dealing with murder and mayhem. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison for his role in the gambling ring. Battista wired and staying up all night and obsessively, blank-mindedly playing online blackjack and poker and even putting bets down on sports for which he had no special insight or inside information, and losing, losing, losing And then Donaghy whistling fouls on the visiting Heat 12 times in Madison Square Garden compared to four against the Knicks; the Knicks covering Martino flying to Toronto to pay Donaghy and to party, ordering prostitutes from a website Donaghy on March 14 in Indianapolis calling four straight fouls in the fourth against the underdog Pacers when they were losing by six to the visiting Wizards. NBA betting scandal of 2007 - The Brown and White