ABC News Investigative Reporter Peter Charalambous talks about how Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups is among those charged in an illegal poker operation tied to the Mafia, while Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier is among several people charged in a separate but related illegal gambling case, authorities announced on Thursday. Billups has been charged with wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. The poker games, which included basketball players to lend credibility to their authenticity, were allegedly rigged in favor of those running the games, using advanced technology, such as rigged shuffling machines and even X-ray technology to read cards facing down on the table. Games were organized beginning in 2019 in the Hamptons, Manhattan, Las Vegas and Miami, officials said. The profits from the alleged poker scheme ran up to $7 million "and counting," officials said. When victims, some of whom lost millions, refused to pay, the mob defendants resorted to violence, the NYPD said.

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