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Ex-Big Ten Exec Gets 28-Month Prison, $4M Restitution

7/23/2026

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Weston Goldstein, former senior director at Big Ten Network, was sentenced to 28 months in prison.
He must pay $4,008,719.81 restitution after pleading guilty to wire fraud for using company credit cards from Jan 2016-Aug 2023 to buy Apple products, which he gave to family, sold to a reseller and listed online, earning about $1.1 million.
He spent $630,000 on personal expenses, paid $470,000 to someone he said was extorting him, and U.S. Attorney Anthony Chmura called it a multi-year fraud.

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Weston Goldstein, former senior director at Big Ten Network, was sentenced to 28 months in prison.
He must pay $4,008,719.81 restitution after pleading guilty to wire fraud for using company credit cards from Jan 2016-Aug 2023 to buy Apple products, which he gave to family, sold to a reseller and listed online, earning about $1.1 million.
He spent $630,000 on personal expenses, paid $470,000 to someone he said was extorting him, and U.S. Attorney Anthony Chmura called it a multi-year fraud.