PROFESSIONAL SPORTS (IBF)
Judge Appoints Monitor for IBF
U.S. Dist. Judge John W. Bissell granted Jan 12 the Dept' of Justice's
request to appoint a monitor to oversee operations of the Int'l Boxing
Fed'n, whose leadership has been indicted on charges of taking bribes to
fix boxer rankings. Bissell named attorney Joseph Hayden, Jr., to act as
IBF monitor, giving him broad powers to help reform the organization. Bissell
also ordered that the indicted co-defendants - Robert Lee, Sr., Robert
Lee, Jr., Don W. Brennan and Francisco Fernandez - be barred from any involvement
in IBF affairs.
This action had been sought in a proposed injunction filed by DOJ on Nov. 22, as part of a civil racketeering suit against the IBF and its top officials. The filing of the lawsuit followed the Nov. 4 unsealing of a RICO Indictment naming the Lees, Brennan and Fernandez. DOJ charged the defendants with running the IBF as a racketeering enterprise, in which they routinely solicited and accepted bribes from fight promoters and managers to fix fighter rankings. [USAO D.N.J., Media Release 1/12/99]
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