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But Capone was doing illegal things. I think what happened in this case (certainly I am not the only one with this opinion) was that they stumbled on it from another investigation (I forget how they got onto this, but I am pretty sure it was due to another investigation they were pursuing)...

But the problem here isn't that they couldn't prove they were breaking one law, so they charged them with another; in this case what they were doing was not illegal (it broke NCAA rules, not Federal rules) so they came up with some bogus technicality. Like if these guys were truly doing...

Not that anyone mails things anymore, but don't do that either or they will tack on Mail Fraud and it allows them to bring the Postal Inspectors in who are not held to the same standards as other law enforcement for warrants. That's actually how they arrested Steve Bannon.

B/c they jumped through ridiculous hoops to charge them with fraud. Ultimately they said that the middlemen defrauded the schools b/c by paying the recruits they made the kids ineligible which meant that the schools gave scholarships to players they shouldn't have. “Here, as the jury could...

Nah - those guys were sentenced after NIL became legal. This article with a snippet of a podcast that they did with one of the guys who went to jail covers a bit of it. The full podcast is worth a listen as well. As he puts it in the article: "So no law has-- no law has changed. But I'm...

Agreed - it was dumb and what makes it worse are the people who actually ended up going to jail were essentially just middle men.