NonilexOct 23

Indictments against #NBA players & at least one coach are expected to be unsealed Thursday in one of the largest-scale #criminal investigations in #ProfessionalSports over the past several years.

The case, which involves at least 2 criminal schemes… has been in the works for months but became public on Thursday morning when #TerryRozier, a guard for the #MiamiHeat, & #ChaunceyBillups, the coach of the #PortlandTrailBlazers, were arrested….

#law #sports
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10/23/nyregion/nba-illegal-gambling-arrests?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

U.S. Charges N.B.A. Coach and Players in Gambling Schemes

More than 30 people were indicted on Thursday in a case involving insider bets on basketball games and poker games rigged by Mafia families.

The New York Times
Show threadNonilexOct 23

Some people participated in both schemes…. One involved illegal #poker games that were set up by #OrganizedCrime families & also involved at least one #NBA coach & fmr players in the league….

The case is expected to involve more than two dozen defendants, according to two people with knowledge of the matter, & to involve charges of #gambling, #MoneyLaundering & #WireFraud.

[guess Trump is pissed he was left out 😜]

#law #sports #TerryRozier #MiamiHeat #ChaunceyBillups #PortlandTrailBlazers

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For more than a year, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have focused on illegal #gambling operations involving #ProfessionalAthletes.

The charges against Rozier & Billups are potentially the biggest hit to the NBA’s reputation since 2007, when the referee Tim Donaghy was found to have bet on games.

#law #sports #NBA #TerryRozier #MiamiHeat #ChaunceyBillups #PortlandTrailBlazers

Oct 23 at 2:22pmWeb
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#FBI joker #KashPatel, in his opening remarks at the news conference, said that the 2 schemes enveloped both the #NBA & #OrganizedCrime, & involved charges of #WireFraud, #MoneyLaundering, #extortion & illegal #gambling.

Patel called the fraud “mind-boggling,” & said the schemes involved “tens of millions of dollars” in #theft, fraud & #robbery.

#law #sports

Show threadNonilexOct 23

One indictment in the case lists 32 defendants, including the former #NBA guard #DamonJones & the #PortlandTrailBlazers coach #ChaunceyBillups, who are both charged with #WireFraud conspiracy & #MoneyLaundering conspiracy, according to the docket sheet in the case.

Many of the other defendants also face those charges, along with counts accusing them of operating an illegal #gambling enterprise & conspiracies to commit #extortion & #robbery.

#law #sports #OrganizedCrime

Show threadNonilexOct 23

The indictments charge 2 different schemes:

1. a #SportsBetting conspiracy that exploited confidential information

2. a nationwide scheme to rig #poker games.

The first includes 6 defendants, the other more than 30.

3 individuals are charged in both indictments.

#law #sports #OrganizedCrime

Show threadNonilexOct 23

Joseph Nocella Jr., the US attorney, is now describing the schemes in detail. He says that the #Mafia — members of several different families — became involved in the rigged games that the defendants were already participating in because of their preexisting control of illegal poker games in NYC.

Nocella says that other crimes stemmed from the scheme, including gunpoint #robbery & #extortion.

#law #sports #OrganizedCrime #gambling

Show threadNonilexOct 23

Nocella said that the sports betting scheme was focused on using non-public information about #NBA athletes & teams, such as when players would be sitting out or leaving a game early, to set up fraudulent bets. Most were prop bets, which are wagers on individual events or performances not linked to the outcome of a game. Those are easier to manipulate.

#law #sports #OrganizedCrime #gambling

Show threadNonilexOct 23

In addition to #SportsBetting schemes, one of the indictments accuses some defendants of operating rigged #poker games at locations on Lexington Ave & Washington Pl.

Acc/to the indictment, the games were “on record”, & run with, “the express permission & approval of, members & associates of certain #OrganizedCrime families of La Cosa Nostra, who provided support & protection for the games & collected owed debts from the games in exchange for a portion of the illegal #gambling proceeds.”

#law

Show threadTeflonTrout  he/himOct 23

@Nonilex

Small potatoes next to him and his handlers