{"id":456217,"date":"2025-08-22T19:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=456217"},"modified":"2025-08-22T19:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T17:18:07","slug":"malik-beasley-not-a-target-in-federal-gambling-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/malik-beasley-not-a-target-in-federal-gambling-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Malik Beasley not a target in federal gambling probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"143\" data-end=\"377\"><strong data-start=\"143\" data-end=\"176\">Malik Beasley is not a target<\/strong> of the U.S. Department of Justice investigation into sports gambling involving NBA players. His attorney, <strong data-start=\"283\" data-end=\"298\">Steve Haney<\/strong>, said federal prosecutors in New York confirmed his client&#8217;s status last week.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"621\">The probe began earlier this year and led the <strong data-start=\"425\" data-end=\"444\">Detroit Pistons<\/strong> to withdraw a three-year, $42 million offer to Beasley. Haney emphasized that Beasley has faced <strong data-start=\"541\" data-end=\"562\">no formal charges<\/strong>, calling the situation \u201cun-American\u201d and unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"623\" data-end=\"809\">ESPN reported Beasley\u2019s exclusion from the case, which centers around <strong data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"710\">Jontay Porter<\/strong> and has already led to multiple guilty pleas. The federal investigation, however, remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"811\" data-end=\"862\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6569233\/2025\/08\/22\/malik-beasley-gambling-investigation-latest-nba\/?campaign=14696150&amp;source=athletic_breaking_targeted_email&amp;userId=4552365\"><em data-start=\"811\" data-end=\"833\">Source: The Athletic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His lawyer confirms no formal allegations have been made against the Pistons guard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-456217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Detroit-Pistons.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456217"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=456217"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=456217"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=456217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}