On October 23rd, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Kash Patel held a press conference and, with high drama, described a far-reaching criminal conspiracy involving the Mafia, Portland Trailblazers’ coach Chauncey Billups, several NBA players, and poker games that were both illegal and rigged.
Besides the corruption classic of giving inside info to certain bettors on NBA games, the long indictment detailed how four New York crime families lured poker players to private cash games with the presence of Hall of Famer Billups and other ballers, and then cheated those players with the use of card-reading shuffle machines and X-ray poker tables.