HUGE! FBI Raids NBA Gambling Ring Tied to Italian Mafia; over 30 People Arrested, Including Trail Blazers Head Coach and Miami Heat's Player

Cristina Laila : Oct 23, 2025
The Gateway Pundit

"Cheating, corruption, and laundering have consequences. We followed the money, and the law caught up..." -Kash Patel, FBI Director

[TheGatewayPundit.com] FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday announced the arrest of more than 30 people across 11 states, including Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat player Terry Rozier, as part of a takedown of a massive sports gambling ring, which included a poker scheme and "sports rigging." (Screengrab image: via Fox News)

The poker scheme, which used X-ray tables to read cards face down, wireless devices and chip tray analyzers, was tied to the Italian mafia, La Cosa Nostra.

"They used off-the-shelf shuffling machines that had been secretly altered in order to read the cards in the deck, predict which player at the table had the best poker hand, and relay that information to an off-site operator," US Attorney Joseph Nocella said.

"Defendants used other cheating technologies such as poker chip tray analyzers, which is a poker chip tray that secretly read cards using a hidden camera—special contact lenses or eyeglasses that could read pre-marked cards, and an X-ray table that could read cards face down on the table," he said.

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