2 Pac-12 assistant basketball coaches charged in wide-ranging bribery scandal

NEW YORK — In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men — including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches — were charged Tuesday with using bribes to influence athletes’ choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, financial advisers, even tailors.

Some of the hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes went to athletes and their families, none of whom was identified by name in court papers. Some of the money went to the coaches, to get them to use their considerable sway over their potentially NBA-bound players, federal prosecutors said.

“The picture of college basketball painted by the charges is not a pretty one,” acting U.S. Attorney Joon H.