NEW YORK -- A jury on Wednesday convicted the three men charged in the first of three federal criminal trials involving pay-for-play schemes in college basketball, which are the culmination of the government's two-year, clandestine investigation into payoffs, bribes and other corruption in the sport.
Adidas employee James Gatto, former Adidas consultant Merl Code and Christian Dawkins, a former runner for NBA agent Andy Miller, were found guilty of felony wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud for facilitating payments from the shoe company to the families of high-profile recruits to influence them to attend Adidas-sponsored schools.