Follow-Up: Former NBA Player Malik Beasley Agrees to Plead Guilty, Set to Change His Plea on December 9 in Brooklyn Federal Court
In Brooklyn, New York City, New York, there has been a decisive development in the federal sports-betting case against former NBA player Malik Beasley: his attorney, Steve Haney, confirmed to multiple outlets on October 27 that Beasley has agreed to plead guilty and is scheduled to formally change his plea on December 9 in federal court in Brooklyn. GSM reported on October 24 that Haney was then negotiating a plea agreement with the Justice Department and expected direction within days; a deal has now been reached.
Haney told ESPN that an agreement had been reached over the weekend but declined to specify its contours, including which charges Beasley will plead guilty to. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York also confirmed to ESPN that an agreement had been reached, while declining to comment on the specifics. Beasley was initially indicted in June on four federal charges — conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bribery in sporting contests, honest services wire fraud conspiracy and conspiracy to commit money laundering — and pleaded not guilty on July 1.
According to the indictment, prosecutors allege that Beasley, then playing for the Milwaukee Bucks, coordinated with sports bettors to manipulate his statistics in at least four NBA games during the 2023-24 season, joining the scheme after accumulating multimillion-dollar gambling losses. He is one of six defendants: the attorney for Ernesto Plascencia has confirmed he will also plead guilty, William Brown pleaded guilty earlier this month, and bettor Robert Gorodetsky is slated to enter his plea on November 20, while former NBA player Ed Davis and agent Paolo Zamorano have pleaded not guilty.
Beasley, 29, was drafted 19th overall by the Denver Nuggets in 2016 and played nine NBA seasons for the Nuggets, Minnesota Timberwolves, Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Lakers, Bucks and Detroit Pistons, earning just under $60 million in his career. He last played in the NBA in the 2024-25 season, averaging 16.3 points per game for Detroit and finishing second in Sixth Man of the Year voting; a planned three-year, $42 million return to the Pistons stalled once the federal investigation became public, and he did not play in the league last season.
Source: GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
Photo: 位于纽约Brooklyn的Theodore Roosevelt美国联邦法院大楼（225 Cadman Plaza East），Beasley定于12月9日在此改口认罪。/ The Theodore Roosevelt U.S. Courthouse at 225 Cadman Plaza East in Brooklyn, New York, where Beasley is set to change his plea on December 9. Photo by Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons
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