{"id":486577,"date":"2026-03-05T08:49:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486577"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:49:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T07:49:36","slug":"rigged-poker-case-trial-date-set-for-nov-2-2026-for-chauncey-billups-and-co-defendants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rigged-poker-case-trial-date-set-for-nov-2-2026-for-chauncey-billups-and-co-defendants\/","title":{"rendered":"Rigged poker case: Trial date set for Nov. 2, 2026 for Chauncey Billups and co-defendants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1779\" data-end=\"2507\">A federal judge in Brooklyn has set <strong data-start=\"2097\" data-end=\"2121\">Sunday, Nov. 2, 2026<\/strong> as the trial start date for <strong data-start=\"2150\" data-end=\"2170\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Chauncey Billups<\/strong>, former NBA guard <strong data-start=\"2189\" data-end=\"2204\">Damon Jones<\/strong>, and nearly three dozen co-defendants in the alleged <strong data-start=\"2258\" data-end=\"2282\">rigged illegal poker<\/strong> case. At the United States Courthouse in New York, Judge <strong data-start=\"2340\" data-end=\"2355\">Ramon Reyes<\/strong> set the date, with prosecutors and defense attorneys expected to discuss how to divide the case because there are too many defendants to try at once.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2509\" data-end=\"2992\">Federal prosecutors said they plan to extend <strong data-start=\"2554\" data-end=\"2586\">plea offers to 12 defendants<\/strong> in the coming days, while at least nine others are in \u201cproductive conversations\u201d about pleading guilty. The latest filing did not specify whether Billups is among those considering a plea deal. Billups, Jones and the other defendants have <strong data-start=\"2826\" data-end=\"2848\">pleaded not guilty<\/strong>, as prosecutors allege they lured unsuspecting players into mob-rigged poker games, aided by organized crime figures and equipment suppliers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2994\" data-end=\"3426\">According to filings, evidence includes <strong data-start=\"3034\" data-end=\"3062\">body-worn camera footage<\/strong>, arrest records, electronic evidence from devices and iCloud accounts, <strong data-start=\"3134\" data-end=\"3152\">100,000+ pages<\/strong> of financial and phone records, surveillance photos and pole camera footage tied to a Manhattan location. Billups has been on <strong data-start=\"3279\" data-end=\"3310\">unpaid administrative leave<\/strong> from the <strong data-start=\"3320\" data-end=\"3346\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/strong> and is living in the Denver area after being released on <strong data-start=\"3404\" data-end=\"3423\">$5 million bail<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal judge in Brooklyn schedules the start of trial; prosecutors to discuss splitting defendants and extending plea offers<\/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-486577","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\/486577","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=486577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486577\/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=486577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486577"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486577"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486577"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}