Overview
- An arbitrator ruled in May that Rozier must forfeit the bulk of his $26.6 million 2025–26 salary because pretrial bond travel limits and a no-contact list prevented him from performing under his contract.
- Rozier remains under federal indictment on earlier wire‑fraud and money‑laundering charges and on recently added sports‑bribery and honest‑services fraud counts, and he has pleaded not guilty.
- Prosecutors allege Rozier agreed to accept about $100,000 in March 2023 to provide nonpublic information that helped gamblers bet the under on his stats in a Hornets game.
- Rozier was placed on unpaid administrative leave last October, was waived by the Miami Heat in April, and his lawyers have asked a judge to remove the Hornets from his no-contact list so he can pursue work during the NBA free-agency window that begins June 30.
- The case is part of a wider federal probe that has produced other guilty pleas and raises questions about how fraud and honest‑services laws apply to inside information sold into legal betting markets and about possible league discipline, including a lifetime ban if Rozier is convicted.