atmtws said:

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How many mobsters were arrested?

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13 members and associates of the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese crime families.

Ernest Aiello
Louis Apicella
Ammar Awawdeh
Matthew Daddino
Lee Fama
John Gallo
Thomas Gerardo
Joseph Lanni
Nicholas Minucci
Angelo Ruggiero, Jr.
Seth Tristan
Julius Ziliani
Robert Stroud lll

HTH

Dirty_Mike&the_boys said:

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atmtws said:

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How many mobsters were arrested?

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13 members and associates of the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese crime families.

Ernest Aiello
Louis Apicella

Ammar Awawdeh

Matthew Daddino
Lee Fama
John Gallo
Thomas Gelardo
Nicholas Minucci
Angelo Ruggiero, Jr.
Seth Tristan
Julius Ziliani
Robert Stroud lll

HTH

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One of these things is not like the others
One of these things just doesn't belong...

agent-maroon said:

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Dirty_Mike&the_boys said:

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atmtws said:

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How many mobsters were arrested?

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13 members and associates of the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese crime families.

Ernest Aiello
Louis Apicella

Ammar Awawdeh

Matthew Daddino
Lee Fama
John Gallo
Thomas Gelardo
Nicholas Minucci
Angelo Ruggiero, Jr.
Seth Tristan
Julius Ziliani
Robert Stroud lll

HTH

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One of these things is not like the others
One of these things just doesn't belong...

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The Sicilian only thing was broken years ago under Gotti, who himself wasn't a full Sicilian, Gotti was Neapolitan, Some families now accept members with partial Italian ancestry (e.g., Italian father but non-Italian mother and vice versa), and non-Italians often play significant roles as associates, though formal "made" status remains rare for those without Italian heritage.

agent-maroon said:

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Dirty_Mike&the_boys said:

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atmtws said:

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How many mobsters were arrested?

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13 members and associates of the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese crime families.

Ernest Aiello
Louis Apicella

Ammar Awawdeh

Matthew Daddino
Lee Fama
John Gallo
Thomas Gelardo
Nicholas Minucci
Angelo Ruggiero, Jr.
Seth Tristan
Julius Ziliani
Robert Stroud lll

HTH

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One of these things is not like the others
One of these things just doesn't belong...

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There was a point shaving scandal with the Long Island University basketball program in the 1950s. It was orchestrated by a group of Jewish mobsters from upstate New York.

agent-maroon said:

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Dirty_Mike&the_boys said:

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atmtws said:

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How many mobsters were arrested?

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13 members and associates of the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese crime families.



Ernest Aiello
Louis Apicella

Ammar Awawdeh

Matthew Daddino
Lee Fama
John Gallo
Thomas Gelardo
Nicholas Minucci
Angelo Ruggiero, Jr.
Seth Tristan
Julius Ziliani
Robert Stroud lll

HTH

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One of these things is not like the others
One of these things just doesn't belong...

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So don't hate on the mob, they practice DEI!!

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The Sicilian only thing was broken years ago

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I get that as there are other non-Sicilian/Italian names on the list (Tristin, Stroud). But I'm surprised to see a Middle Eastern name on the list. Big leap on the information given, but the first thing that came to mind is participation of terrorist organizations for fundraising.

It sounds like the NBA has known about this for a long time, but has done nothing. Because supposedly they didn't find anything in their investigation that rose to the level of action. Now their excuse is that they don't have the same powers of investigation that the FBI has. But at some level I don't think they care a ton about whether the big gambling companies get ripped off. They care about the money that flows into them from gambling. And they care about the perception of their league. And sometimes sweeping things under the rug is the best way to handle things.

agent-maroon said:

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Dirty_Mike&the_boys said:

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atmtws said:

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How many mobsters were arrested?

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13 members and associates of the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese crime families.

Ernest Aiello
Louis Apicella

Ammar Awawdeh

Matthew Daddino
Lee Fama
John Gallo
Thomas Gelardo
Nicholas Minucci
Angelo Ruggiero, Jr.
Seth Tristan
Julius Ziliani
Robert Stroud lll

HTH

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One of these things is not like the others
One of these things just doesn't belong...

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2025 version of Tom Hagen.

Black jock millionaires getting greedy with the devil.

Too bad

My exact reply but you beat me to it.

Pichael Thompson said:

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So Billups is arrested for hosting fixed poker games?

Meanwhile casinos across the country fix gaming on a daily basis & target much poorer people than Billups poker list...



wtf is Patel doing!?!?




Can he please stop ****ing around w dumb **** like this & start droning some Mexican narco terrorists already?

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So you are alleging that State Gaming Commissions are on the take?

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agent-maroon said:

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Dirty_Mike&the_boys said:

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atmtws said:

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How many mobsters were arrested?

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13 members and associates of the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese crime families.

Ernest Aiello
Louis Apicella

Ammar Awawdeh

Matthew Daddino
Lee Fama
John Gallo
Thomas Gelardo
Nicholas Minucci
Angelo Ruggiero, Jr.
Seth Tristan
Julius Ziliani
Robert Stroud lll

HTH

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One of these things is not like the others
One of these things just doesn't belong...

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The Sicilian only thing was broken years ago under Gotti, who himself wasn't a full Sicilian, Gotti was Neapolitan, Some families now accept members with partial Italian ancestry (e.g., Italian father but non-Italian mother and vice versa), and non-Italians often play significant roles as associates, though formal "made" status remains rare for those without Italian heritage.

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User name........checks out???

Also Ex Mobster Michael Franzese made a response video:

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It sounds like the NBA has known about this for a long time, but has done nothing...

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Really not a surprise. The NBA has done a lot of shady things for a long time to try and maximize the income for their owners.

The cheating that put Patrick Ewing in New York was just the beginning. This past year, when the Mavericks traded Luke Doncic for what seemed like not NEARLY enough, I told my co-workers - "Watch - somehow, Cooper Flagg ends up in Dallas. The draft will somehow be fixed to even up that trade".

The trade was ostensibly Luka and Maxi Kleeber for Anthony Davis and Max Christie and a 2029 1st rounder. No one with an ounce of basketball knowledge makes that trade.

Throw in Cooper Flagg on the Dallas side of that trade and oh hell yes I make that trade. Crooked as a dog's hind leg, but the big name player ended up in a huge market which will help TV ratings.

YouBet said:

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My exact reply but you beat me to it.

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Great minds... something something... think... something...

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On October 23, 2025the same day the 2025-26 NBA season tipped offfederal authorities announced a sweeping investigation into illegal gambling schemes that have ensnared NBA personnel and organized crime. The FBI, alongside the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, indicted 31 individuals across two separate but interconnected cases involving wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, and sports rigging. FBI Director Kash Patel described the operations as a "grand stage" fraud that bridged the NBA with La Cosa Nostra, specifically implicating the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese, and Lucchese crime families, who allegedly provided protection and collected debts in exchange for cuts of the proceeds. This marks one of the most explosive gambling scandals in NBA history, amplifying concerns about the league's integrity amid the rapid expansion of legal sports betting since 2018.
Key Arrests and Figures Involved

The arrests targeted high-profile NBA figures, including:
Chauncey Billups: Head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and 2024 Basketball Hall of Fame inductee (as a player). Billups, a five-time All-Star and 2004 NBA Finals MVP, was detained in Florida for his alleged role in an illegal high-stakes poker ring run with Mafia approval. The games were "on record" with organized crime associates, who enforced debts through extortion.
Terry Rozier: Guard for the Miami Heat, in the final year of a $96.3 million contract. Rozier was arrested in a separate but related probe tied to suspicious prop betting activity from a March 23, 2023, game during his time with the Charlotte Hornets. Multiple wagers totaling nearly $14,000 were placed on "under" props for his points, rebounds, and assists, triggering alarms at monitoring firm U.S. Integrity. Rozier's attorney, Jim Trusty, claims he was cleared by the NBA and FBI in 2023 after multiple interviews, calling the revived case a "non-case," and insists Rozier "is not a gambler."
Damon Jones: Former NBA player (19992009, including stints with the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics) and assistant coach (e.g., Cleveland Cavaliers). Jones, who once served as LeBron James' personal shooting coach, was arrested due to a well-documented gambling addiction that reportedly cost him millions from his playing earnings.

Other implicated individuals include five men charged alongside former Toronto Raptors forward Jontay Porter (already NBA-banned since April 2024 for manipulating his own prop bets by underperforming or exiting games early; he pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges). Porter's scheme involved tipping off gamblers on his performance, leading to over $1 million in illicit bets. Additionally, Milwaukee Bucks guard Malik Beasley is under federal scrutiny for similar misconduct from his Bucks tenure but has not been charged yet.

Details of the Schemes
Sports Betting Manipulation: The primary NBA-linked case revolves around player prop betswagers on individual stats like points or assists. Investigations revealed coordinated efforts to influence outcomes, echoing Porter's 2023-24 incidents. Rozier's 2023 game raised red flags due to anomalous betting patterns, part of a broader pattern monitored by the NBA and partners like U.S. Integrity.

Illegal Poker Operations: Billups' involvement centered on underground poker games in New York and Florida, protected by Mafia families. These were not directly tied to NBA game-fixing but funded through NBA-adjacent networks, with proceeds laundered via wire fraud.

Mafia Connections: The indictments highlight how organized crime infiltrated legal betting markets post-2018 PASPA repeal, using NBA insiders to rig props and collect on debts. This builds on prior NBA actions, like restricting "under" bets for short-term players to curb manipulation.

Broader Implications and Reactions
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, speaking on The Pat McAfee Show the day prior, called for stricter U.S. gambling regulations to safeguard game integrity, noting the league's collaboration with sportsbooks to limit risky prop markets. The scandal has sparked widespread shock, with fans and media decrying it as a "meltdown" that fuels "rigged league" narratives. Reactions on X (formerly Twitter) range from disbelief"Holy sh**… The gambling arrests in the NBA right now are CRAAAAAAZY"to dark humor about 1990s-style mob ties resurfacing. Analysts warn this could erode trust in the NBA, already strained by Porter's ban, and predict more fallout as the season unfolds. The league has not commented officially, but sources indicate internal probes are accelerating.

This investigation underscores the perils of sports betting's boom, with experts forecasting similar scandals across leagues like the NFL and MLB. As of now, the NBA season proceeds amid the chaos, but the full scope of charges and potential suspensions remains unfolding.

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Why does anyone even watch the NBA anymore? The NBA loves China and hates America. Money & greed make people do evil things.

He might as well have said Black people can't be held accountable before their crimes.

What the **** does this have to do with Trump?

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Mr.Milkshake said:

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Still no Epstein list. They'll throw the base some meat

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The Epstein List that the Biden had in their pocket to use for 4 years if they wanted to and they chose not to?

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This.

Every time an ignorant liberal start screaming about this, this should be the response. They couldn't have given a rat's ass during the Biden administration. In fact, dumbasses like Raskin even said they were "too busy" Yeah, too busy ****ing up the country. But they know they're gullible dumb base will eat it up.

And given that they were throwing everything but the kitchen sink, no wait, including the kitchen sink at Trump. If there was anything there it would've come out.

It ain't there. It ain't gonna touch him.

But it's all they have. That and J6.

They cannot let that go.

Oh, and now apparently they're freaking out over the White House renovations. Because they're idiots.

It was April 2019 in Las Vegas and, as always in the gambling capital of America, there was a poker game going on.

Except this wasn't an ordinary poker game. And these weren't ordinary gamblers.

Sitting at the table that day was Chauncey Billups, a retired NBA star who would soon be hired as the head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers. He was there for a very important reason: to lure in unwitting wealthy patsies who thought the game was legitimate, so he and the other players could steal tens of thousands of dollars of their money.

In the Vegas game, law enforcement says organizers deployed a rigged shuffling machine that they had secretly tampered with to ensure their success. They allegedly bilked their victims for at least $50,000.

Billups' role was less high-tech: He was the bait.

Billups and Jones, the indictment says, gave details about players being benched to some of the same people they were working with in the rigged poker games. Billupsidentified in this indictment only as "Co-Conspirator 8"allegedly told a fellow participant in the Vegas game that the Blazers intended to "tank" a 2023 game against the Chicago Bulls by resting top players. Another defendant in the poker-rigging scheme then wagered on a Portland loss before players were publicly ruled out, netting a significant profit.

By then they'd already been working seamlessly together for years, according to prosecutors. The poker games, in particular, had turned into sophisticated operations.

Prosecutors say the defendants in the poker-rigging scheme would often modify DeckMate shufflers with tech that could read the cards in the deck and relay that information to an off-site operator.

The Rigged Poker Games That Used NBA Stars and James Bond Tech to Steal Millions - WSJ

A rigged card shuffler system was a plot element in a TV episode of High Potential a couple of
weeks ago.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPZ-ezaiTlc/?hl=en

The glasses that were used by the Mafia and NBA players, to rig poker games..

👀 pic.twitter.com/nH795dUph4

— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) October 23, 2025

ts5641 said:

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If this league shut down I wouldn't even notice. I suspect there'd be a lot who don't give a **** about this POS league.

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haven't watched a minute of the NBA in about 15 years

it sucks!!

Man, so many words, so little time...

I would bet money (OK, OK, I'm convinced) that this is just the tip of the iceberg in gambling or corruption issues with the NBA and/or pro sports. With respect to gambling and the NBA, Billups and Rozier know plenty about what's going on and it isn't limited to their poker game and in-game activities. They'll likely use that information to deal their way out (er, ah...become a witness and get immunity) in bringing down bigger and better fish.

I can't believe 2 rogue guys are doing all this and others aren't doing ANYTHING.

Edit: just watched Tim Donaghy (ex-ref who passed inside info to betters 15-ish years ago and did time) talk about this and he said it was indeed the tip. He is still in touch, believe it or not, with the FBI agents/folks that busted him! Boy, how do you like that?

Billups had already made tens of millions of dollars

so now he is going to prison for stealing another million?!?

what the @#$#@ did he do with first 50 million he earned?!?

even cocaine isn't that expensive!

I'm old enough to remember when the NBA was lecturing us all about the evils of racism

and how America sucks by kneeling before the National Anthem.

but I guess cheating at gambling is okay.

91AggieLawyer said:

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Man, so many words, so little time...

I would bet money (OK, OK, I'm convinced) that this is just the tip of the iceberg in gambling or corruption issues with the NBA and/or pro sports. With respect to gambling and the NBA, Billups and Rozier know plenty about what's going on and it isn't limited to their poker game and in-game activities. They'll likely use that information to deal their way out (er, ah...become a witness and get immunity) in bringing down bigger and better fish.

I can't believe 2 rogue guys are doing all this and others aren't doing ANYTHING.

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With the mafia involved, there is no dealing out except in a coffin.

Guys better learn quickly that a remote starter is no longer a luxury

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91AggieLawyer said:

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Man, so many words, so little time...

I would bet money (OK, OK, I'm convinced) that this is just the tip of the iceberg in gambling or corruption issues with the NBA and/or pro sports. With respect to gambling and the NBA, Billups and Rozier know plenty about what's going on and it isn't limited to their poker game and in-game activities. They'll likely use that information to deal their way out (er, ah...become a witness and get immunity) in bringing down bigger and better fish.

I can't believe 2 rogue guys are doing all this and others aren't doing ANYTHING.

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With the mafia involved, there is no dealing out except in a coffin.

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Agreed. Which is why this is stupid on so many levels. Once you get started you can't stop, you can't deal your way out, and you are going to take the fall for others -- all for peanuts compared to what you're already making.

If it were you or I (assuming you aren't making 20 large a year -- I'm not), it may make a little more sense but here it isn't. They're either being blackmailed (possibly, but unlikely -- at least in starting out), or they this is colossal stupidity.

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Mr.Milkshake said:

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Still no Epstein list. They'll throw the base some meat

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I love this kneejerk coping mechanism the Left has adopted.

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Maybe. But he's not wrong. Bondi either was bull****ting us or there is a cover up.

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Bondi was likely trying to sound like a bad a$$ and it blew up in her face.

All of these leagues will end up paying for their greed. Bringing in extra revenue from gambling was a hogs get slaughtered moment for sports.

Can't wait till they bring out the refs

S. A. Smith is a hurt dog hollering. Trash

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91AggieLawyer said:

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Man, so many words, so little time...

I would bet money (OK, OK, I'm convinced) that this is just the tip of the iceberg in gambling or corruption issues with the NBA and/or pro sports. With respect to gambling and the NBA, Billups and Rozier know plenty about what's going on and it isn't limited to their poker game and in-game activities. They'll likely use that information to deal their way out (er, ah...become a witness and get immunity) in bringing down bigger and better fish.

I can't believe 2 rogue guys are doing all this and others aren't doing ANYTHING.

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With the mafia involved, there is no dealing out except in a coffin.

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Really? What David Chase fantasy is that from? Michael Franzese and Sammy "the Bull" Gravano are giving interviews on TV about this very case and they were both two of the biggest snitches in the history of La Cosa Nostra, and they are out in the open and have minor celebrity status. Today's so called mob is made up of DEI mobsters not the old school gangsters of the past.

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S. A. Smith is a hurt dog hollering. Trash

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Nah, he is just upset that he might also be going to jail.



























I have no idea just wouldn't be surprised if sports commentators weren't also involved somewhere somehow.