A sports-betting guru ensnared in the explosive NBA gambling scandal tried to flee the country in January with $10,000 — and a one-way ticket to Colombia — as the feds closed in on a separate case, court papers reveal.
Shane “Sugar” Hennen, 40, was nabbed at Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport in January as the feds pursued a point-shaving case against him and exiled NBA player Jontay Porter that served as a prelude to stunning twin indictments unveiled Thursday.
The feds accused Hennen, a convicted felon who regularly flaunted his gambling wins on Instagram, of masterminding a scheme in which Porter would pull himself out of games with bogus injuries to score big on sports bets. 3
Porter eventually pleaded guilty in the game-rigging scandal and was banned from the N

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