In response to the joint News Enterprise/Atlanta Unfiltered investigation of Georgia Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers’ sports handicapping career, Atlanta’s WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News ran a piece that featured a segment on how News Enterprise reporter David Michaels got the story. (The broadcast version of the piece is embedded about half way down the post.)
Ch 2 Investigation: Chip Rogers Represented Handicapping Operation
By Jodie Fleischer (WSB-TV)
What happens in Vegas, doesn’t always stay there. Channel 2 Action News has confirmed Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers was the face of a sports handicapping operation in the late 1990’s, routinely flying to Las Vegas to record television shows which show him announcing his picks for games, a practice gamblers commonly use to determine teams on which to bet.
