Прокурорууд тэднийг шидэлтийн мэдээллээ мөрийтэй тоглогчдод өгч, авлига авсан гэж буруутгаж байна.
Кливленд Гуардианс багийн экс шидэгч Эммануэль Класэ, Луис Ортис нар даваа гарагт Бруклины холбооны шүүхэд тангарагтны шүүхээр оров. Ирэх сарын турш үргэлжлэх төлөвтэй шүүх хуралд бейсболын тоглогчид, баригчид болон багийн удирдлагууд мэдүүлэг өгөх аж.
Яллах дүгнэлтэд дурдсанаар, Доминиканы Бүгд Найрамдах Улсаас гаралтай хоёр мөрийтэй тоглогч тодорхой шидэлтийн хурд, үр дүнг таамагласан бооцоогоор дор хаяж 460 мянган ам.долларын ашиг олжээ. Класэ 2023 оноос бооцоочдод шидэлтийнхээ талаар мэдээлэл өгч эхэлсэн бөгөөд 2025 онд Ортисыг уг схемд татан оролцуулсан гэж прокурорууд үзэж байна.
Хоёр шидэгч буруугүй гэдгээ мэдэгдсэн бөгөөд шийдвэр гарах хүртэл цалингүй чөлөөтэй байгаа. Тэднийг цахим залилан, шударга үйлчилгээний залилан, мөнгө угаах болон авлигаар спортын тэмцээнд нөлөөлөхөөр хуйвалдсан хэрэгт буруутгаж байгаа бол өмгөөлөгчид нь бооцоочидтой тохиролцоогүй, харин цохигчдыг төөрөгдүүлэхийн тулд шидэлтийн байршлаа өөрчилсөн гэж маргах төлөвтэй байна.
Баасан гарагт шүүгч Класэ АНУ-ын татварт 500 мянган ам.долларын өртэй гэх баримтыг прокурорууд шүүхэд танилцуулахыг хоригложээ. Уг нотлох баримтыг өмгөөлөгчдөд хугацаа хоцорч өгсөн гэж шүүгч үзсэн байна. Мэргэжлийн бейсболын дээд лиг болон Гуардианс баг мөрдөн шалгах ажиллагаатай бүрэн хамтарч байгаагаа мэдэгдсэн бөгөөд лиг сэжигтэй бооцооны хөдөлгөөнийг шалгаж эхлэхдээ холбооны хууль сахиулах байгууллагад ханджээ.
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Former Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz go to trial Monday on charges that they accepted bribes as they colluded with gamblers who made hundreds of thousands of dollars betting correctly on individual pitches.
Their careers and possibly their freedom are at stake in the jury trial expected to unfold over the next month in Brooklyn federal court. Several professional baseball players, including catchers and baseball executives, are among witnesses expected to testify.
Clase, the Guardians’ former closer, and Ortiz, a starter, have pleaded not guilty to conspiracy charges and are on nondisciplinary leave from the club without pay while their fate is determined.
According to an indictment, the pitchers accepted several thousand dollars in payoffs to help two gamblers from their native Dominican Republic win at least $460,000 on in-game prop bets on the speed and outcome of certain pitches.
Prosecutors allege that Clase began providing the bettors with information about his pitches in 2023 and recruited Ortiz into the scheme in 2025. Lawyers for Ortiz unsuccessfully sought to have Ortiz tried separately from Clase.
Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto said at a conference Friday that she hopes to complete jury selection quickly enough that lawyers can deliver relatively short opening statements in the afternoon.
Clase, 28, is a three-time All-Star and two-time American League Reliever of the Year who had completed his fourth season of a $20 million, five-year contract when charges against the pitchers were revealed in November 2025.
Ortiz, 27, had earned $782,600 as a starting pitcher for the Guardians during the 2025 season.
The pitchers have been charged with wire fraud conspiracy, honest services wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to influence sporting contests by bribery.
Defense lawyers are expected to argue that the pitchers did not collude with gamblers and instead were varying the placement of pitches strategically to fool batters.
On Friday, the judge ruled that prosecutors cannot show the jury proof that Clase owed $500,000 in U.S. taxes because they had only provided the evidence to defense lawyers several days earlier and long after a deadline had passed to turn over evidence to their adversaries.
A prosecutor had argued that the government wanted to put the evidence in the trial to offset any claim by Clase’s lawyers that he had no incentive to collude with gamblers because he had several million dollars in financial accounts in the Dominican Republic.
Major League Baseball and the Guardians have both said they’ve fully cooperated with authorities. MLB has said it contacted federal law enforcement when it began investigating unusual betting activity.
