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   You’re betting on a lot of things under and over that could mean the score of   
   the game, uh, things of that sort. People bet on all kinds of stuff like what   
   color socks the players are going to wear.  Portland trailer players.   
   Portland Trail Blazers players Head coach Chauncey Billups allegedly leaked   
   insider info to gamblers identifying him as a co conspirator number eight in   
   federal court documents. The scheme involved tipping a betting ring about his   
   team’s plan to tank a game against the Chicago Bulls.  Wow, that’s. That’s   
   pretty heavy duty.  Team’s gonna tank a game. Doesn’t mean all the team   
   members were.  Even aware of it by the way. Pretty incredible, Pretty   
   outrageous. See here Billups also faces charges in a separate scheme   
   involving fixed poker games with the mob.  So this guy Billups was involved   
   in both schemes.  A reputed mobster, Thomas Gilardo, known as Tommy Juice has   
   been charged in the FBI investigation in a multi million dollar rigged poker   
   ring. He allegedly acted as muscle threatening victims to pay debts from   
   fixed games that included former NBA players. He’s one of 31 people charged.   
   Thirteen alleged mobsters including the son of Gambino captain and a Bonanno   
   crime family member implicated in widespread gambling bust alongside NBA   
   stars. The arrests reveal a high stakes operation involving rigged poker   
   games and illicit proceeds benefiting various crime families. Key figures.   
   This is New York post. Angelo Ruggiero Jr. And Ernest Ernie Aiello are among   
   those accused.  All right, I want you to hear from, uh, the FBI Director,   
   Kash Patel.  Cut 19. Please go.  But as you now know, individuals such as   
   Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones and Terry Rozier were taken into custody today.   
   Former current NBA players and coaches. What you don’t know is that this is   
   an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation that spanned the   
   course of years. The FBI led a coordinated takedown across 11 states to   
   arrest over 30 individuals today responsible for this case, which is very   
   much ongoing. Not only did we crack into the fraud that these perpetrators   
   committed on the grand stage of the NBA, but we also entered and executed a   
   system of justice against La Casa Nostra to include the Bonanno, Gambino,   
   Genovese and Lucchese crime families. And you’ll hear more about those   
   details today. The charges and the arrests that were taken down across this   
   country range from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery, illegal   
   gambling. This FBI will leave no room for any perpetrator of crime across   
   this country. You hear a lot about our work of defending the homeland and   
   crushing violent crime. Well, this work is also representative of a colossal   
   portion of the FBI’s mandate to keep America safe and to keep our   
   entertainment industry fair and secure. The men and women that are standing   
   up here today worked tireless hours, days, months and years. And the fraud is   
   mind boggling. It’s not hundreds of dollars, it’s not thousands of dollars,   
   it’s not tens of thousands of dollars, it’s not even millions of dollars.   
   We’re talking about tens of millions of dollars in fraud and theft and   
   robbery across a multi year investigation.  Uh, and then there’s Christopher   
   Rea, New York FBI assistant director.  Cut 20. Go.  Three of the named   
   defendants are charged for their alleged roles in both schemes. This alleged   
   illegal gambling operation hustled unwitting victims out of tens of millions   
   of dollars and created a financial pipeline for La Cosa Nostra to help fund   
   and facilitate their organized criminal activity. Victims were attracted to   
   play alongside well known professional athletes and coaches like Chauncey   
   Billups, only to be unknowingly deceived through rigged shuffling machines,   
   fixing the odds in their favor as alleged. And as you just heard from the   
   U.S. attorney’s office, this alleged scheme wreaked havoc across the nation,   
   exploiting the notoriety of some and the wallets of many to fund the Italian   
   crime families here in New York.  Mhm. All right, well, that pretty much sums   
   it up. Um, so our different talk show hosts. I’d be talking about this for   
   three hours and repeating themselves. We’re not going to do that there’s too   
   much going on. But the NBA has a problem. Maybe all sports has a problem, as   
   far as I know, but certainly the NBA does. Uh, people have to have faith that   
   these games are kosher, that they’re straight, uh, that there’s no   
   influencing going on. And this is a, it’s just a massive black eye to the   
   NBA. I don’t blame the commissioner. I don’t blame anybody. I’m just saying   
   the individuals have created a huge problem and the industry is going to have   
   to figure out how to deal with it.  I’ll be right back.   
      
   Segment 2   
   You know, sometimes I decide things on the fly here, and we always try to   
   provide some context, certainly from my views and my opinions, but context   
   for you, because there are things I know you’ve never been exposed to, the   
   nature of the public, uh, school system, no matter your age, especially   
   today, but generally many aspects of Jewish history that Jews are not   
   familiar with. Many aspects of Christian history that Christians aren’t   
   familiar with. Same with Muslims. Same with our own history, American   
   history. And I want to talk to you briefly. I’ve mentioned this place many   
   times on this program about Shiloh, spelled Shiloh. S H I L O H.  Can assure   
   you that the vast majority of people in the United States, politicians as   
   well, who say that Israel will never annex, uh, the west bank, have no idea   
   what’s taking place in the West Bank. I would also say this Israel will do   
   whatever it chooses to do. Maybe not now. Timing could be bad. Maybe not with   
   our current president or vice president. You’re talking about an area of the   
   world, people, holy sites that are 4,000 years old. The fight the president   
   talks about that’s 3,000 years old predates anything called a, uh,   
   Palestinian. That name was invented in 1965 by Arafat, an Egyptian. What he’s   
   talking about, I believe, is the attacks on the Jews by the Babylonians, by   
   the Persians, who were not Arabs, by the Romans, who were not Arabs, and so   
   forth and so on. What’s been going on for 3,000 years, probably longer, is   
   the effort to exterminate the Jews. That’s what’s been going on. There’s not   
   been a battle between the Israelis and Hamas or the Israelis and the   
   Palestinian Authority. They never existed. They’re not in your Bible. They’re   
   not in the Koran. They’re nowhere their concoction. But I want to get into   
   this a little bit because you’re going to hear people say that the Israelis   
   will not annex, uh, Judea and Samaria, which they call the West Bank. Uh, the   
   timing on this was really problematic. And it wasn’t the Conservatives, the   
   Likud Party, the, that brought this up to vote on this. It was the left, the   
   left in the Knesset. They did that to try and create a wedge between the   
   Prime Minister and the more conservative parties, Likud and others, and the   
   administration which says, you’re not going to annex, quote, unquote, the   
   west bank on our watch. But the Jews in the Middle east know something, like   
   the Chinese in Far East Asia know something. The world doesn’t begin and end   
   in a period of a few years, a period of a few decades, or a period of a few   
   centuries. If Judea and Syria don’t belong Judea and Samaria don’t belong to   
   the Jews, who does it belong to? Uh, now we are very mindful of our own   
      
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