FBI ties NBA gambling case to 4 Mafia families
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The Independent on MSN
Rented NYC home was used for NBA-Mafia poker games: feds
The lavish Manhattan home is located at 80 Washington Place in Greenwich Village. Officials say that in 2023 basketball stars and bookies conspired with four of New York’s Five Families to rig poker games at the home with high-tech devices. The six-story townhouse reportedly sold in 2024 for $17 million.
You can picture the scene. Tucked somewhere between the glitter and grit of Manhattan, a room wafting smoke with the rhythm of a poker game seemingly like any other: Cards whisper against felt, chips click in steady tempo,
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What is La Cosa Nostra? Inside the mafia’s rumored influence that shadowed NBA’s gambling scandal
The NBA faces a potential crisis as a gambling scandal reveals links to \"La Cosa Nostra,\" the Italian-American Mafia. Investigators are exploring conn
An explosive indictment accuses basketball stars and bookies of conspiring with four of New York’s Five Families to rig illegal, high-stakes poker games across the country with high-tech devices — with threats of violence against the marks in debt to the fraudulent scheme.
Al Jazeera on MSN
NBA gambling arrests stun league, expose mafia links: What to know
Damon Jones: Former NBA player and assistant coach for Los Angeles in 2022-23. Jones is accused of supplying inside information to allow a network of conspirators to place winning bets on games. And like Billups, he is also accused of helping to lure wealthy people to participate in poker games.
Chauncey Billups and Terry Rozier are facing money laundering and wire fraud conspiracy charges in connection with federal gambling-related investigations.
Philadelphia vs. The Mafia, shows the mob era of Philadelphia when, in 1991, a power vacuum was created after the fall of Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo.
From machete fights in California fields to hijacked railcars in the Bronx, organized crime transformed the humble artichoke into a lucrative—and violent—black-market prize.
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