{"id":471297,"date":"2025-11-24T15:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=471297"},"modified":"2025-11-24T15:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T14:09:37","slug":"nba-scandal-billups-to-enter-plea-in-brooklyn-poker-fraud-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nba-scandal-billups-to-enter-plea-in-brooklyn-poker-fraud-case\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA scandal: Billups to enter plea in Brooklyn poker fraud case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1211\" data-end=\"1455\"><strong data-start=\"1211\" data-end=\"1237\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/strong> coach <strong data-start=\"1244\" data-end=\"1264\">Chauncey Billups<\/strong> is set to appear in <strong data-start=\"1285\" data-end=\"1311\">Brooklyn federal court<\/strong> today to enter a plea in a criminal case accusing him of <strong data-start=\"1369\" data-end=\"1399\">fraud and money laundering<\/strong> tied to a mafia-linked <strong data-start=\"1423\" data-end=\"1452\">poker game-rigging scheme<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1457\" data-end=\"1705\">Prosecutors allege Billups and others used <strong data-start=\"1500\" data-end=\"1547\">X-ray tables and altered shuffling machines<\/strong> to cheat victims out of more than <strong data-start=\"1582\" data-end=\"1596\">$7 million<\/strong> since 2019. The 49-year-old, currently <strong data-start=\"1636\" data-end=\"1649\">suspended<\/strong>, has <strong data-start=\"1655\" data-end=\"1680\">denied all wrongdoing<\/strong> through his attorneys.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1707\" data-end=\"1979\">The case also involves ex-NBA player <strong data-start=\"1744\" data-end=\"1759\">Damon Jones<\/strong> and alleged members of <strong data-start=\"1783\" data-end=\"1801\">La Cosa Nostra<\/strong>, all of whom have pleaded not guilty. It\u2019s part of a broader investigation into <strong data-start=\"1882\" data-end=\"1912\">bet-rigging in U.S. sports<\/strong>, as authorities tighten scrutiny on gambling-related corruption.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1981\" data-end=\"2070\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups is set to appear in Brooklyn federal court<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":466051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-471297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-24-alle-15.35.12.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471297"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=471297"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=471297"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=471297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}