Clase, Ortiz Trial: Co-Defendants Clash Over Explosive Secrets That Could Change Everything
Ortiz must explain the $5,000 and $7,000 payments that the government alleges were made to him after he supposedly rigged pitches on June 15 and June 27. If he concedes that they were payments for acts he didn’t agree to commit, he would still incriminate Clase as the cog of a conspiracy.
Ortiz’s lawyers told the EDNY before he was indicted that he had not communicated with Clase during either the June 15 or June 27 games. Now Ortiz contends that he shared information with Clase before those games, but without any inclination that it would be used to make prop bets. This flip is potentially damaging to both, because it implicates Clase in a conspiracy.



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