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Speaker 1: Okay, So big arrests announced this hour related to gambling

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Speaker 1: in the National Basketball Association. Jason Hammer won half of

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Speaker 1: the Hammer and Nigel Show is here at sports. It's gambling,

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Speaker 1: that's you, buddy. What's going on?

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Speaker 2: This press conference was pretty wild because the information we learned,

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Speaker 2: it's not necessarily about the people involved, it's about the technology.

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Speaker 2: So the Trailblazers coach Chauncey Billups, so I think it's

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Speaker 2: a Hall of famer. Right, won a championship with the Pistons,

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Speaker 2: beat Iu in the tournament when he was with Colorado

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Speaker 2: back in the day. He's been arrested. Miami Heat player

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Speaker 2: Terry Rozier has been arrested, and former player Damon Jones

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Speaker 2: have been arrested with three guys. Now Rosier and Jones

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Speaker 2: are separate than Chauncey Billups. Billups is charged with being

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Speaker 2: part of these high stakes poker games funded by the

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Speaker 2: MOB where cheating is taking place. And the press conference

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Speaker 2: that just took place was amazing because they're breaking down

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Speaker 2: the technology used to cheat people in these high stakes

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Speaker 2: poker games. Oh wow, It's like something from like a

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Speaker 2: James Bond or Austin Powers movie special shufflers where they

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Speaker 2: can see what's going on. There were also devices where

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Speaker 2: you could read what's on the cards and things like that.

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Speaker 1: This is like a Sopranos episode, except it's foreign mafia people,

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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 3: Well.

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Speaker 2: It's tied to several different mafia families. Now you've heard

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Speaker 2: of some of them. Some of them are Italian American

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Speaker 2: mafia families, the Gambino, the Case families. They're still around,

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Speaker 2: still around, still doing it. Eleven states are involved here,

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Speaker 2: thirty one total arrests now billups is with the mafia

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Speaker 2: and the cheating of these high stakes poker games. Terry

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Speaker 2: Rozier was, in essence point shaving. He was basically telling

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Speaker 2: all of your buddies to bet the under on my

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Speaker 2: props during the game, and he would figure out some

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Speaker 2: sort of way to either fake an injury or do something.

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Speaker 2: They had a system set up where the night before

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Speaker 2: he would tell somebody a certain phrase and that would

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Speaker 2: be their key to bet the under on a prop.

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Speaker 1: He's made a ton of This is what I can't

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Speaker 1: figure out about these NBA guys. He's made a ton

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Speaker 1: of money in his life playing basketball.

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Speaker 3: Why would he do this?

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Speaker 2: That's a great question, they can't help themselves. The FBI

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Speaker 2: said they recorded more than three thousand phone calls and

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Speaker 2: meetings with the targets of this investigation. People were wearing

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Speaker 2: wires like this is honestly like something you would see

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Speaker 2: from a movie.

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Speaker 3: And this is what's interesting is.

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Speaker 1: These things take time, right, and sometimes they start with

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Speaker 1: one thing and they end up with another thing because

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Speaker 1: they catch it looking into the first thing. So, just

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Speaker 1: because the perception is.

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Speaker 3: And it started with Rozier and ended up with Chauncey.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so a lot of times with criminal investigations, just

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Speaker 1: because the perception is nothing's happening doesn't mean nothing.

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Speaker 3: Because this took a long time.

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Speaker 2: Here are the bullet points of some of the technological

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Speaker 2: advances that were uncovered in this sting. X ray machines

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Speaker 2: built into poker tables to read face down cards, contact

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Speaker 2: lenses and glasses that read pre marked cards, secret cameras

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Speaker 2: and card trays, and special shuffling machines.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so this is my gambling question to you. Because

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Speaker 1: you can go to a casino and you can play cards,

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Speaker 1: why would he he being Johncey Billups, do this. Why

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Speaker 1: wouldn't he just go to like Michael Jordan was Alan

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Speaker 1: iverson those guys would go play in a casaine.

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Speaker 3: Since he was in on defrauding all these I got you.

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Speaker 1: He's in on the on the conw it's not the

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Speaker 1: game that they're going after.

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Speaker 3: H No, he was in on the con and.

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Speaker 2: They were bringing these people in thinking it was a

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Speaker 2: fair poker game.

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Speaker 1: Ohm playing cards with Johncey Billups, Right, you guys playing cards?

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Speaker 2: Yeah. If you remember at the beginning of Ocean's Eleven,

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Speaker 2: like they've got Brad Pitt's character, he's teaching celebrities to

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Speaker 2: play poker, and it's these big steaks, back room kind

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Speaker 2: of games, kind of what's going on here?

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Speaker 3: They had these big whales, So it was a.

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Speaker 2: Mix of Ocean's Eleven and Rounders, these back alley poker games.

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Speaker 2: But Teddy KGB and the mafia are funding these.

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Speaker 3: Oh man.

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Speaker 2: Oh so he's in big trouble right right now. I

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Speaker 2: don't care what's going on in your life. Maybe you're

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Speaker 2: having job trouble, maybe you're having woman trouble. Whatever the

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Speaker 2: case may be, you're doing better than Chauncey Billups. His

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Speaker 2: job right now is to figure out do I want

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Speaker 2: to go to federal prison or do I want to

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Speaker 2: rat out the mall right, those are his options right now,

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Speaker 2: and it's a.

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Speaker 3: Hall of Famer.

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Speaker 1: I think he's in the Hall of fame. He has

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Speaker 1: made a gajillion dollars. Who's a high profile NBA head coach?

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Speaker 3: Now was or I.

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Speaker 1: Guess still maybe is why would you do this? Do

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Speaker 1: you need money that bad? And they said the investigation

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Speaker 1: is still ongoing. This is kind of what they found.

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Speaker 1: It was almost like a domino effect.

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Speaker 2: I think they were probably looking into the players for

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Speaker 2: point shaving prop shaving and once somebody is in custody

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Speaker 2: because if you remember, there was a Raptors player that

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Speaker 2: got in trouble for this, and it sounds like those

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Speaker 2: investigations overlapped. One person starts squealing to save themselves and

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Speaker 2: now it's the domino and let him to the Portland

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Speaker 2: Trail Blazer's head coach.

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Speaker 1: Wow, this has been there's some up from money to

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Speaker 1: get this going.

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Speaker 2: The technology is wild there. It's like something from a

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Speaker 2: Bond movie.

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Speaker 3: What are you doing this afternoon?

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Speaker 2: We'll have the latest on this and you are going

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Speaker 3: By a I Joe hawkson you know he got disinvited

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Speaker 3: to that. He's going to respond, Oh great, exciting, Thanks Sammer.

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