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Miami's Rozier, Portland's Billups among dozens charged in massive NBA gambling probe · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Several NBA players and coaches have been arrested, and it
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  Speaker 1: is all part of a US federal probe into sports
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  Speaker 1: betting and illegal gambling. Last hour, FBI Director Cash Ptel
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  Speaker 1: gave details about that investigation.
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  Speaker 2: Do you now know individuals such as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones,
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  Speaker 2: and Terry Rozier were taken into custody today former current
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  Speaker 2: NBA players and coaches. What you don't know is that
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  Speaker 2: this is an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation
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  Speaker 2: that spanned the course of years. The FBI led a
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  Speaker 2: coordinative takedown across eleven states to arrest over thirty individuals
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  Speaker 2: today responsible for this case, which is very much ongoing.
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  Speaker 2: Not only did we crack into the fraud that these
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  Speaker 2: perpetrators committed on the grand stage of the NBA, but
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  Speaker 2: we also entered and executed a system of justice against
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  Speaker 2: La Casinoshra to include the Bonano, Gambino, Genevec and lou
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  Speaker 2: Chase crime families. The chargers and the arrest that were
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  Speaker 2: taking down across this country range from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery,
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  Speaker 2: illegal gambling.
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  Speaker 1: And the CBC's Chris Rais is in New York she
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  Speaker 1: was listening into law enforcement officials today and has more
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  Speaker 1: on those stunning allegations.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, Arthy, very shocking. You heard from FBI Director
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  Speaker 3: Cash Battel, as well as Joseph Nutella Junior, who is
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  Speaker 3: the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
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  Speaker 3: That's the federal courthouse that typically handles big financial crimes
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  Speaker 3: in this country. So those two officials announced two sets
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  Speaker 3: of charges. The first involved insider betting in the NBA,
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  Speaker 3: and the charge there Arthy is wire fraud, money laundering,
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  Speaker 3: and those charge include, as Cashpatel there already mentioned Terry Rosier,
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  Speaker 3: who currently plays for the Miami Heat. He was arrested
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  Speaker 3: in Florida this morning, as well as former NBA player
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  Speaker 3: Damon Jones. FBI Director Cash Patel named other NBA teams
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  Speaker 3: that are involved in the investigation, including the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 3: Lakers and the Toronto Raptors. Pattel said that this is
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  Speaker 3: about said this about the betting.
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  Speaker 2: It's not thousands of dollars, it's not tens of thousands
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  Speaker 2: of dollars. It's not even millions of dollars. We're talking
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  Speaker 2: about tens of millions of dollars in fraud and theft
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  Speaker 2: and robbery across a multi year investigation and Arthy.
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  Speaker 3: The second set of charges include rigged nationwide poker games
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  Speaker 3: and that involves thirty one people that have been charged,
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  Speaker 3: including former professional athletes. Damon Jones is also named in
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  Speaker 3: these charges as well. Again the current head of head
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  Speaker 3: coach of the Portland Trailblazers, Chauncey Billups, who also played
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  Speaker 3: for the Toronto Raptors by the way, He was arrested
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  Speaker 3: this morning in Florida, and the charges in that case
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  Speaker 3: Arthy include wire fraud, conspiracy, illegal gambling, money laundering, robbery,
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  Speaker 3: and extortion. Battel said that this case is meant to
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  Speaker 3: send a message that the US entertainment industry is fair
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  Speaker 3: and secure and that there's no room for any type
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  Speaker 3: of criminal behavior.
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  Speaker 1: It was interesting, too, Chris, because we got a lot
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  Speaker 1: of detail about how these alleged schemes worked, according to officials,
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  Speaker 1: and there was high tech cheating technology, specialized contact lenses,
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  Speaker 1: X rayed tables.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me more about what we heard, I mean, straight
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  Speaker 3: out of the movies, right. There's a lot to break
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  Speaker 3: down here because according to those officials, not only was
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  Speaker 3: this a nationwide, multi year investigation, it also has deep
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  Speaker 3: ties to organize chrime. You heard cash Ptel There lists
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  Speaker 3: some of the most famous mafia families in this country,
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  Speaker 3: some of them based right here in New York City.
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  Speaker 3: The date range that they looked at for these crimes
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  Speaker 3: arthy is between December twenty twenty two and March twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty four. For the illegal bedding, officials said that they're
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  Speaker 3: prop bets that were made and it capitalized on information
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  Speaker 3: that was obtained through these long standing friendships with NBA
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  Speaker 3: players and coaches, and that those fraudulent bets were placed
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  Speaker 3: through online sports books and sometimes casinos and sometimes had
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  Speaker 3: to do with the individual performances of those players. And
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  Speaker 3: then the money that was obtained through those schemes were
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  Speaker 3: later laundered in different ways, including through bank wires. For
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  Speaker 3: the rigged poker games, this is where it gets heavy
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  Speaker 3: into what you would see in the movies are They
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  Speaker 3: It involved cheating tools like altered shuffling machines, X rays
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  Speaker 3: that could read cards, these contact lenses that could read
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  Speaker 3: marked cards, and apparently, according to these allegations, conspirators committed
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  Speaker 3: acts of violence, including gunpoint robbery, in order to try
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  Speaker 3: and obtain some of these rigged shuffling machines as well
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  Speaker 3: as extortions were made against perpetrated individuals to try to
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  Speaker 3: get these gambling debts repaid. So that's just the surface
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  Speaker 3: of this very extensive and extensive case, extensive allegations that
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  Speaker 3: will no doubt have rippling effects across the sports world. Today.
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  Speaker 1: The CBC's Chris Reas reporting for US from New York