-
David Purdum
On a chilly Wednesday evening in Atlantic City, New Jersey, four bettors sat in a restaurant booth inside a casino on the boardwalk, their table full of fried food and fountain drinks. March Madness was tipping off, but that’s not why they were there. Their plan was to bet on a fixed NBA game.
One of the men pulled out his phone, smiled wryly, and, with his partners eating in the background, snapped a selfie, commemorating the day as if it were a typical guys’ trip to Atlantic City.
The picture of the four men — Ammar Awawdeh, Long Li Pham, Timothy McCormack and the smiling Mahmud Mollah — is included in a criminal complaint…
