Boxer Gets 15-Month Sentence
A federal judge sentenced a former heavyweight boxer Friday to 15 months in prison for being paid to throw fights, including an August 2000 bout at the Paris hotel-casino.
Thomas Williams, 35, appeared in federal court in downtown Las Vegas for his sentencing on one count of conspiracy and one count of sports bribery.
A jury convicted Williams, along with promoter Robert Mitchell, 42, in November for fixing 11 fights from March 1995 to August 2000. The fights were included in the conspiracy charge.
Manager Robert Mittleman, 61, of Oak Park, Ill., testified against the pair after agreeing to plead guilty in the case.
Mittleman, who pleaded guilty to two counts of sports bribery and one count of bribery of a public official, received three years’ probation. Mitchell is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday.
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