A former minor league baseball player and a California check-cashing company face charges for allegedly taking part in an illegal multimillion-dollar gambling operation that involved current and former professional athletes.
U.S. prosecutors in Los Angeles charged former minor league baseball player Wayne Joseph Nix and his partner Edon Yoshida Kagasoff with conspiring to operate an illegal sports gambling business and website. Nix was also charged with failing to report almost $1.5 million in income, to which he admitted this month in a plea agreement, prosecutors said.
Nix allegedly employed three former Major League Baseball players to help with his business. ...
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