Over 30 CHARGED Connected to Probes of Mafia-backed Sport Gambling
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Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rosier
are among more than 30 people charged in connection with schemes involving illegal
sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the mafia, officials said on Thursday.
Rosier is accused of participating in an illegal sports betting scheme
using private insider NBA information. Authorities said Thursday that Billups
is charged in a separate indictment alleging a wide-ranging scheme to rig underground poker
games that were backed by mafia families. FBI Director Kash Patel said the arrests
were made across 11 states. The FBI led a coordinated takedown across 11 states
to arrest over 30 individuals today responsible for this case, which is very much ongoing.
Not only did we crack into the fraud that these perpetrators committed on the grand
stage of the NBA, but we also entered and executed a system of justice against La Casa Nostra
to include the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchesi crime families.