Munish Sood

Munish Sood, a New Jersey-based financial adviser who was one of 10 men arrested by the FBI in September 2017 as part of the federal government's investigation into bribes and other corruption in college basketball, has pleaded guilty to three felony counts, according to federal court records. Sood, the CEO and chief investment officer of Princeton Advisory Group in Princeton, New Jersey, was accused of bribing three assistant coaches -- Arizona's Emanuel "Book" Richardson, Oklahoma State's Lamont Evans (who was working at South Carolina at the time) and USC's Tony Bland -- with thousands of dollars to influence their players to choose him as a financial adviser once they turned pro. As part of the plea agreement, sources told ESPN on Friday, Sood is expected to testify against the other defendants in at least two of the government's three criminal cases related to college basketball corruption. Sood and Christian Dawkins, a former AAU director and runner for former NBA agent Andy Miller, formed their own sports management firm in 2017. Sood was accused of arranging at least $22,000 in payments to Evans and also directing payments to Bland and Richardson in exchange for their influence.