DETROIT (AP) — A former University of Toledo football player has pleaded guilty in a sports-bribery investigation and admitted he received $500 to fumble in a 2005 bowl game.
Quinton Broussard told a judge Thursday that he received more than $2,000 over two years from Detroit-area gambler, Ghazi “Gary” Manni.
He says he told Manni about team injuries and other confidential information starting in 2004. Broussard says he intentionally fumbled against Texas-El Paso in the 2005 GMAC Bowl. Toledo easily won the game, 45-13.
Broussard pleaded guilty to conspiracy. The 27-year-old Dallas man is the fourth former Rocket to plead guilty in the point-shaving probe, which included football and basketball, roughly from 2004 through 2006.
Charges are pending against three former basketball players as well as Manni and another Detroit-area businessman.
