Full Tilt Poker: French tycoon Tapie agreed to buy - Forbes.com

did not know about the adidas or the sports rigging conviction <--- wait wut?

Tapie served six months in prison in 1997 after being convicted of bribing soccer players to throw a 1993 match against Olympique Marseille, a team he owned. He was also convicted of fraud for deliberately misleading authorities about a luxury yacht.