{"id":1261,"date":"2024-12-08T16:11:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T13:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/wsop-winner-cory-zeidman-pleads-guilty-to-sports-betting-fraud-scheme\/"},"modified":"2024-12-08T16:11:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T13:11:42","slug":"wsop-winner-cory-zeidman-pleads-guilty-to-sports-betting-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wsop-winner-cory-zeidman-pleads-guilty-to-sports-betting-fraud-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"WSOP Winner Cory Zeidman Pleads Guilty to Sports Betting Fraud Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_34 counter-flat ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Tabla de contenidos<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1'><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wsop-winner-cory-zeidman-pleads-guilty-to-sports-betting-fraud-scheme\/#Scheme_Generated_25M\" title=\"Scheme Generated $25M\">Scheme Generated $25M<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/xxbet-company.com\/es\/wsop-winner-cory-zeidman-pleads-guilty-to-sports-betting-fraud-scheme\/#Victims_Disagree\" title=\"Victims Disagree\">Victims Disagree<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>Pro poker player and sports betting tout Cory Zeidman pleaded guilty in a federal court in New York Wednesday to defrauding customers in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/world-series-of-poker-bracelet-winner-charged-in-25m-sports-betting-scam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sports handicapping business<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-338010\" data-style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-338010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cory-858x570.jpg\" alt=\"Cory Zeidman, sports betting, poker, fraud, handicapping, tout\" width=\"1010\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cory-858x570.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cory-430x286.jpg 430w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cory-302x200.jpg 302w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cory-238x158.jpg 238w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cory-194x128.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/cory.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1010px) 100vw, 1010px\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"text-description\">Cory Zeidman, above, charged \u201cextortionate\u201d fees for sports betting advice that was either \u201cfictitious or obtained from an internet search,\u201d according to the feds. (Image: Seminole Coconut Creek)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Federal prosecutors alleged that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/jonathan-tamayo-wins-wsop-main-event-in-vegas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Series of Poker<\/a> bracelet winner and his co-defendants duped customers to pay for betting advice by claiming to have insider knowledge, \u201conly to feed them lies and pocket millions of dollars from their savings and retirement accounts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Boca Raton, Fla. resident Zeidman, 61, has earned almost $700,000 in gross tournament winnings in a 25-year poker career. He won his WSOP title in 2012 in 7-card stud. Prior to that, he was best known for arguably slow-rolling Jennifer Harman while holding a straight flush against her full house at the 2005 WSOP main event.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Scheme_Generated_25M\"><\/span><strong>Scheme Generated $25M<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>From 2004 to 2020, Zeidman\u2019s racket offered bettors access to \u201cprivileged information\u201d about player injuries, \u201cdirty referees,\u201d and sporting events that were \u201cfixed\u201d \u2013 all false, according to prosecutors. The organization advertised its services on national radio using bogus names like \u201cGordon Howard Global\u201d and \u201cRay Palmer Group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When bettors contacted the organization potentially to invest in the scheme, they were told it received information on injuries from doctors and that television executives were giving it the lowdown on the purportedly predetermined results of games. This rendered sports betting a \u201clow or no-risk proposition,\u201d prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"callout\">\n<p><strong>Zeidman and his co-defendants collected around $25 million in \u201cexorbitant\u201d fees from customers in exchange for information that \u201cwas either fictitious or obtained from an internet search,\u201d according to court details.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Shortly after his arrest in 2022, Zeidman told PokerNews that he intended to plead not guilty, quoting Nietzsche (the last refuge of a scoundrel?) to insist his innocence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the words of Nietzsche, \u2018Everything the state says is a lie and everything it has it has stolen,\u2019\u201d he proclaimed.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Victims_Disagree\"><\/span><strong>Victims Disagree<\/strong><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>But it was Zeidman who was doing the fibbing and pilfering, according to his victims, who contacted Homeland Security about his scheme. That\u2019s in contrast to his description of himself as \u201can individual with the highest level of morals and integrity,\u201d in his PokerNews spiel.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"main-blockquote\">\n<p>Sports bettors sought Cory Zeidman\u2019s advice before gambling their money \u2014 but it was Zeidman himself who was scoring big through his deceptive practices, outright lies, and high-pressure tactics that exploited unsuspecting clients,\u201d special agent Charles Walker of Homeland Security in New York said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Zeidman pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud, which comes with a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/wsop-winner-cory-zeidman-pleads-guilty-to-betting-fraud\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WSOP Winner Cory Zeidman Pleads Guilty to Sports Betting Fraud Scheme<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casino.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro poker player and sports betting tout Cory Zeidman pleaded guilty in a federal court in New York Wednesday to defrauding customers in his sports handicapping business. Cory Zeidman, above, charged \u201cextortionate\u201d fees for sports betting advice that was either \u201cfictitious or obtained from an internet search,\u201d according to the feds. 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