|
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A federal court has rejected appeals from a boxing promoter and a fighter convicted in a fight-fixing scheme that included an August 2000 bout at the Paris hotel-casino in Las Vegas.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against promoter Robert Mitchell, of Irmo, S.C., and boxer Thomas Williams, of Upper Marlboro, Md., convicted by a federal jury in November 2004 on one count each of conspiracy and of sports bribery.
Mitchell and Williams were found guilty of fixing 11 fights from March 1995 to August 2000. The fights were included in the conspiracy charge. The jury found Mitchell was involved in paying bribes of more than $70,000.
|