Two more suspects charged in Jontay Porter game rigging scheme — including one who made $1.1M

Two more suspects have been charged with encouraging disgraced former Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter to influence NBA games — including a Pennsylvania man who made $1.1M off a slew of bets.

Mahmud Mollah, 24, from Philadelphia, was hit with conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges Thursday after he cashed in on $1.13 million in bets from the two rigged games that led to Porter receiving a lifetime ban from the NBA.

The gambler appeared in Brooklyn Federal Court for his arraignment Thursday alongside New York native Timothy McCormack, 36, who faces the same charges, where they were released on $50,000 bond before Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollak.

Prosecutors allege that McCormack and Mollah worked with Porter, 24, to rig the “under” on bets based on Porter’s performance in two NBA contests by getting a heads up that Porter was going to fluke an injury in order for their bets to hit.

The bets focused on parlays — a bet of two or more statistical categories — on Porter’s performance in the games, where the degenerate gamblers allegedly focused on categories like points, rebounds or blocks, court papers charge.

The alleged crew members — along with self-described “poker shark” Long Phi Pham and another unnamed co-conspirator — all met at an Atlantic City casino before the Raptors’ March 20th game against the Sacramento Kings, in which Porter faked a stomach bug despite having his best performance of the season just a game prior.

Mollah allegedly deposited $66,900 in cash into a betting account before the game, and eventually netted a whopping $1.13 million in a series of parlay bets — before an online betting company suspended his account, preventing him from withdrawing most of his winnings.

In the same rigged game, McCormack won $44,000 by wagering $8,000 by betting on the under for Porter’s rebounds, prosectors said.

McCormack also made $33,250 in the Jan. 26 game against the Los Angeles Clippers — the game where Porter left early with a fake eye injury — on a $7,000 wager by betting the under of Porter’s three-pointers, assists and steals, according to court papers.

The judge ordered McCormack to get treatment for a gambling addiction after his attorney, Jeffrey Chartier, voiced the concern.

Meanwhile, Pham was released Thursday when he posted $750,000 bail after prosecutors claimed that he was trying to jet out of town when he tried to board a flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Australia on a one-way ticket.

Another suspect in the complaint remains at-large.

Attorneys for McCormack and Mollah declined to comment on how their clients knew Porter.

The NBA journeyman was banned from the league on April 4 following an investigation that found that Porter — the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr. — placed at least 13 bets on NBA games using someone else’s account, with bets ranging between $15 to $22,000.

According to the complaint, Porter owed “significant gambling debts” to at least one of the alleged conspirators and was encouraged to clear his debts by doing a “special” — purposely rigging a game in favor of his debt collectors and their bets, who knew that he was underperforming on purpose.

Porter is not identified in the complaint, but matches the description of “Player 1” in the court documents.