{"id":486451,"date":"2026-03-04T07:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486451"},"modified":"2026-03-04T07:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:44:07","slug":"poker-case-prosecutors-to-offer-formal-plea-deals-to-12-defendants-filing-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/poker-case-prosecutors-to-offer-formal-plea-deals-to-12-defendants-filing-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Poker case: prosecutors to offer formal plea deals to 12 defendants, filing says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1771\" data-end=\"1996\">In a brief filed Tuesday, prosecutors said they expect to extend <strong data-start=\"1836\" data-end=\"1862\">formal plea agreements<\/strong> to 12 of the 31 defendants and are \u201c<strong data-start=\"1899\" data-end=\"1924\">reasonably optimistic<\/strong>\u201d they can reach deals with nine others before the case goes to trial.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1998\" data-end=\"2184\">All defendants are due in federal court Wednesday, after the previous status hearing on Nov. 24, when the defense was allowed to review the evidence under a court <strong data-start=\"2161\" data-end=\"2181\">protective order<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2186\" data-end=\"2487\">The filing says the evidence includes body-worn camera footage, arrest-related records, electronic material from devices and Apple iCloud accounts, more than 100,000 pages of financial and phone records, surveillance photos, and pole-camera video from a Manhattan location tied to the alleged games.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2489\" data-end=\"2811\">The brief did not name specific defendants or indicate whether Billups is considering a deal. Billups has been on <strong data-start=\"2603\" data-end=\"2634\">unpaid administrative leave<\/strong> from the <strong data-start=\"2644\" data-end=\"2670\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/strong> since his arrest, pleaded not guilty in November, and sources told ESPN he has been living in the Denver area after posting $5 million bail.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2813\" data-end=\"2908\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><em data-start=\"2813\" data-end=\"2846\">Source: ESPN (Ramona Shelburne)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday\u2019s status hearing is set to be a key checkpoint in the federal case over alleged rigged poker games that includes Chauncey Billups and former NBA player Damon Jones<\/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-486451","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\/486451","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=486451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486451\/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=486451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486451"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486451"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486451"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}