Charges are related to insider sports betting and another that rigged poker games nationwide linked with NBA and Mafia.
More than 30 people have been charged on Thursday, including Chauncey Billups, an NBA Hall of Fame player and head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, and Terry Rozier, a guard with the Miami Heat, in connection with two separate but related federal gambling investigations that involved the league and the Mafia.
The schemes – one of them focused on insider sports betting and another that rigged poker games nationwide – spanned years and involved tens of millions of dollars in illicit gains from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion and gambling, FBI Director Kash Patel said at a news conference in Brooklyn on Thursday.
Rozier was one of seve
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