Each of the city's famous Five Families -- Genovese, Lucchese, Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino -- has a dedicated FBI unit investigating it full time, and Scala was the boss of the one focused on the Gambinos. That clip has Donaghy saying "Tommy was one of those guys all the girls loved, athletic, funny, good-looking kid that everybody liked." It then has Battista saying "He had good street smarts,. High school friend of Donaghy and Battista who served as the go-between in the betting scheme during the 2006-2007 NBA season. Gambler, bookmaker and great-great grandson of the founder of Goldman Sachs, now deceased. In our case, it means there's just a 4.1 percent chance that an unbiased ref would have randomly made the calls that Tim Donaghy did during his crooked run. Litvin then filled him in on the worst of it and told him there was an ongoing investigation, instructing him to say nothing about any of it to anyone. He started a gambling group called "The Animals." Place fifty thousand dollar bets and get a massive returnif you won. Martino also penned a book in 2019. The final game, Martino remembers, was a loss. Only a fool, Dr. Sean Patrick Griffin wrote, would have ignored Battistas ridiculously obvious wagering success.. ", Not every retired referee is reticent. We also passed along our data to Keith Crank, who served for 15 years as the program director in statistics and probability at the National Science Foundation. When I visited her in Sarasota not long ago, at the office where she works, she made it clear the divorce was a long time coming. "And it's too obvious.". According to a court document, Donaghy and Concannon placed their first bet on a game Donaghy was refereeing in March 2003 -- more than four years and four NBA seasons before he was caught. "Maybe the company never sat at a table together," he says. That is incorrect. Nunn, then the director of NBA officials, was in town for the NBA summer league games held annually among the casinos, where referee candidates from the minors are assessed for possible promotion to the Show. Scala recalls that he and Donaghy went around and around on the issue. I accepted because Im an academic; we argue for a living. And so nothing about any of this would end up in Pedowitz's final report. Two years of reporting later, the story can now be told: This is the definitive account of how Tim Donaghy conspired to fix NBA games -- and how, in so doing, he unwittingly enriched an array of gamblers to the tune of likely hundreds of millions of dollars. The guy's career was ruined and his life in shambles. Where is Tim Donaghy's Partner Jimmy Battista Now? This scandal involved two childhood friends, Jimmy Battista, the gambler, and Tommy Martino, the go-between, who carried the money and information between Donaghy and Battista. Whether or not Battista made them explicitly aware of his agreement with Donaghy, their money was used to make one very specific genre of bet: games refereed by Tim Donaghy. By many accounts, it's like semi-retirement. Kulle's eyes were practically dollar signs. Martino had two brothers. He has given up making betting picks for a tout service, which he did for a time after his release from prison. The Feds made no mention of game-fixing. And then one afternoon the case agent came into my office. "His father is an outstanding man," Rush, now retired, says today. People know I have documents and files, and they constantly ask me questions whose answers they dont like. According to the report, only one of those 17 games, Pistons at Nets on Dec. 16, 2006, "raised concerns that Donaghy's calls and substantial errors might have been aimed at favoring Detroit (which covered the point spread)."