01 Dec O’Dwyer’s PR News: “Sitrick Stands For Forstmann”

By Kevin McCauley

Sitrick and Company’s Michael Sitrick is spokesperson for IMG Worldwide chairman Ted Forstmann, target of a lawsuit that claims he bet more than $600K from 2004-07 on NCAA basketball tournament games that were coached by clients of the big agent/sports programming shop.

The crisis PR pro told the Dec. 1 New York Times that the list of the alleged bets cited in the fraud complaint lodged by Jim Agate, head of Agate Printing, is inaccurate. He’s confident Forstmann will prevail, if the suit ever goes to trial.

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