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<blockquote data-quote="B_DiDDY" data-source="post: 2419010" data-attributes="member: 830639">Is this illegal?&nbsp; A 40+ yr old man started a &quot;NON-PROFIT&quot; recreational basketball league in summer of 2006. Since then it has grown from 8 teams to 80 teams and topped out at 100 teams in a season, attracting players across an entire region. He divides teams into conferences based on height limit, and competition level. He has new basketball seasons year round, from winter, spring, summer, to fall. League fee started from $250 in 2006, and has quickly risen to $550 due to &quot;fees&quot; for refs, score keepers, renting gyms and more teams joining. Numerous times, participants in this league have speculated that he is profiting from this, but he has steadily denied. He also dictates and conspires with refs &amp; score keepers to &quot;do what little things they can&quot; to get results he desires (i.e. running down the clock, calling fouls, traveling, bogus calls, rigging playoff brackets, etc), as he is also a player on a few teams in the league. Being a commisioner, you should not be playing on a team in the league you run, as it is a &quot;conflict of interest&quot;. But it just adds fuel to the fire, that he is profiting from this league created for the local community. But all we want want is something to have fun and relieve stress and enjoy a sport we love in our community in our free time. Doing some math, me and some colleagues have concluded that he brings in income at least $10k - $20k a year. And that was being generous with the math, it could possibly be around $40k + a year of straight cash. Kinda long, but please help me out.&nbsp; He appears to be a nice guy at first.&nbsp; He smiles in your face and seems cool, but when he is confronted about &quot;cheating&quot;, &quot;conspiring&quot;, &amp; &quot;profiting&quot;, he ignores the questions, blames associates that help him organize the league, and cant look eye to eye.&nbsp; He has been doing this for 4-5 years and has not been caught.&nbsp; If it is legal, then consider me salty, but in my opinion it is conniving and immoral for him to claim it to be a non-profit rec league, yet he acts like a dictator and, though he denies it, is surely makin loads of $$$$$.&nbsp; notes;- Been going on since summer of &#039;06- plenty of participants/players have noticed what I have and share my opinion on him- league fee has risen dramatically from $250-$550- rents 2-3 gyms at a time from 9am-9pm- games run year round every season from jan-dec. 5 reg season games. 5 playoff games- 2 refs are paid $12 a game. 1 score keeper paid $10 a game. paid under the table.- Commisioner hops onto a few &quot;competitive&quot; teams and conspires with refs, score keepers to do little things to achieve his desired results</blockquote>

[QUOTE="B_DiDDY, post: 2419010, member: 830639"] Is this illegal? A 40+ yr old man started a "NON-PROFIT" recreational basketball league in summer of 2006. Since then it has grown from 8 teams to 80 teams and topped out at 100 teams in a season, attracting players across an entire region. He divides teams into conferences based on height limit, and competition level. He has new basketball seasons year round, from winter, spring, summer, to fall. League fee started from $250 in 2006, and has quickly risen to $550 due to "fees" for refs, score keepers, renting gyms and more teams joining. Numerous times, participants in this league have speculated that he is profiting from this, but he has steadily denied. He also dictates and conspires with refs & score keepers to "do what little things they can" to get results he desires (i.e. running down the clock, calling fouls, traveling, bogus calls, rigging playoff brackets, etc), as he is also a player on a few teams in the league. Being a commisioner, you should not be playing on a team in the league you run, as it is a "conflict of interest". But it just adds fuel to the fire, that he is profiting from this league created for the local community. But all we want want is something to have fun and relieve stress and enjoy a sport we love in our community in our free time. Doing some math, me and some colleagues have concluded that he brings in income at least $10k - $20k a year. And that was being generous with the math, it could possibly be around $40k + a year of straight cash. Kinda long, but please help me out. He appears to be a nice guy at first. He smiles in your face and seems cool, but when he is confronted about "cheating", "conspiring", & "profiting", he ignores the questions, blames associates that help him organize the league, and cant look eye to eye. He has been doing this for 4-5 years and has not been caught. If it is legal, then consider me salty, but in my opinion it is conniving and immoral for him to claim it to be a non-profit rec league, yet he acts like a dictator and, though he denies it, is surely makin loads of $$$$$. notes; - Been going on since summer of '06 - plenty of participants/players have noticed what I have and share my opinion on him - league fee has risen dramatically from $250-$550 - rents 2-3 gyms at a time from 9am-9pm - games run year round every season from jan-dec. 5 reg season games. 5 playoff games - 2 refs are paid $12 a game. 1 score keeper paid $10 a game. paid under the table. - Commisioner hops onto a few "competitive" teams and conspires with refs, score keepers to do little things to achieve his desired results [/QUOTE]

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