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If You Watch Only One Sports Documentary During Quarantine, Make It This One
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If You Watch Only One Sports Documentary During Quarantine, Make It This One
Carron J. Phillips
Wednesday 3:43PM •
If I told you that the FBI started an undercover investigation to expose the people who secretly pay college basketball recruits, only to find out that their own employees were stealing the agency’s money, would you believe me?
That isn’t my opinion, but it is the story being told, amongst others, in the upcoming HBO documentary “The Scheme,” that will premiere on Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. EST. The film is told from Christian Dawkins’ point of view, the middleman at the center of the investigation, and holds nothing back about how the system works. The convicted felon tells all, as the documentary features audio and video from FBI wiretaps and surveillance.
“I found out that the FBI agents were accused of or alleged to have stole money from the investigation via the Wall Street Journal article,” says Dawkins.
“Apparently what happens when you send a bunch of dudes to Las Vegas with envelopes of cash, is like, not great. And since then there’s been a full blown DOJ investigation into what went wrong with this,” says WSJ reporter Rebecca Davis O’Brien.
No one would have guessed it would end like this.
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If You Watch Only One Sports Documentary During Quarantine, Make It This One
Carron J. Phillips
Wednesday 3:43PM •
If I told you that the FBI started an undercover investigation to expose the people who secretly pay college basketball recruits, only to find out that their own employees were stealing the agency’s money, would you believe me?
That isn’t my opinion, but it is the story being told, amongst others, in the upcoming HBO documentary “The Scheme,” that will premiere on Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. EST. The film is told from Christian Dawkins’ point of view, the middleman at the center of the investigation, and holds nothing back about how the system works. The convicted felon tells all, as the documentary features audio and video from FBI wiretaps and surveillance.
“I found out that the FBI agents were accused of or alleged to have stole money from the investigation via the Wall Street Journal article,” says Dawkins.
“Apparently what happens when you send a bunch of dudes to Las Vegas with envelopes of cash, is like, not great. And since then there’s been a full blown DOJ investigation into what went wrong with this,” says WSJ reporter Rebecca Davis O’Brien.
No one would have guessed it would end like this.
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