Offenses that corrupt the outcome or a specific incident within a sporting contest for financial gain through betting markets, distinguished from ordinary bribery by their specific target, the integrity of a competitive sporting event, and from securities and market-manipulation fraud by the fact that the manipulated market is a betting market rather than a financial one. This group gathers match fixing, the manipulation of a contest's overall result; point shaving, the narrower manipulation of a game's margin rather than its winner; and spot-fixing, the manipulation of one isolated, unconnected incident within a contest with its own betting market.
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1. Black Sox Scandal (Wikipedia)
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On September 18, 1919, White Sox player Chick Gandil met with Joe 'Sport' Sullivan, a Boston bookmaker, at the Hotel Buckminster near Fenway Park.
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