Robert Boone was an up-and-coming assistant U.S. attorney in the vaunted U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York about seven years ago, when he learned that an incomparable, highly sensitive case might be starting up that deeply resonated with him.
The line prosecutor and ardent sports fan was then a decade removed from playing NCAA Division I soccer at Howard University. Boone immediately informed his supervisor that he’d like to be considered for the assignment: Investigating a financial adviser’s claims of having intel on a college basketball bribery scheme.
Boone landed the gig, becoming the first prosecutor ...
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