🚨 FBI Kash Patel Full Presser:
Historic NBA & Mafia Illegal Gambling and Sports rigging Operation — NBA Players faking illnesses and Injuries

• Wire Fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery, and illegal gambling

• First indictment involves 6 defendants who participated in in a sports betting conspiracy that exploited confidential information about NBA athletes and teams

• Second indictment involves 31 defendants who participated in rigged illegal poker games. Used high tech cheating technology to steal millions from victims in underground poker games that were secretly fixed by the Bonanno, Gambino, and Genovese crime families

Technologies used:
- poker chip tray analyzers that secretly reads cards
- hidden cameras
- special contact lenses or glasses that can read cards
- X Ray tables that can read cards

• Other Defendants:
Eric Ernest, Marves Farley, Shane Hennig, De Niro Laster, Damon Jones, Terry Rozier, Jontay Porter
—— These defendants purported a scheme to fake injuries and illnesses, also pulling themselves out of future games.
—— they also threatened current players of preexisting gambling bets

There were victims known as “Fish” lured to play alongside former professional athlete’s known as “Face Guards” such as Chauncy Billips.
—— the victims, the “Fish”, didn’t know everyone from the dealer to the players were in on the scam. Those in on the scam split the profits