By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI’s investigation into a popular daily fantasy sports operator could extend to team owners and executives of Major League Baseball, Forbes reports.
The investigation involve DraftKings, which has a “special business relationship” with MLB, according to Forbes.
Forbes writes:
Although rarely discussed, the story behind DraftKings’ rapid rise to prominence is inextricably intertwined with its financial relationship with Major League Baseball.
Indeed, DraftKings was a relatively small company with only $1.4 million in seed capital when 34-year old C.E.O. Jason Robins was able to land a meeting through a mutual contact with Robert Bowman and Kenny Gersh from MLB Advanced Media. After that April 2013 meeting, everything changed for both enterprises.
