{"id":135723,"date":"2025-10-23T13:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/23\/the-brazen-sports-betting-scandal-everyone-is-talking-about\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:53:15","slug":"the-brazen-sports-betting-scandal-everyone-is-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/23\/the-brazen-sports-betting-scandal-everyone-is-talking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Brazen\u2019 Sports Betting Scandal Everyone Is Talking About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[This case is] one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online sports betting became widely legalized in the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span>\u2014 Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Joseph Nocella, Jr., in a press conference earlier today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46695228\/sources-terry-rozier-arrested-part-gambling-inquiry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">discussing the arrest<\/a> of 34 people, including Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones, as the result of a years-long investigation related to illegal sports betting and rigged poker games. The fraud is described by authorities as \u201cmind-boggling\u201d and is linked to four Mafia families. In total, six of the defendants are accused of involvement in the sports betting scheme and 31, including Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, are accused of involvement in the poker scheme.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/10\/the-brazen-sports-betting-scandal-everyone-is-talking-about\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018Brazen\u2019 Sports Betting Scandal Everyone Is Talking About<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-single__featured-image post-single__featured-image--medium alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2015\/05\/760px-Basketball_through_hoop-300x236.jpg?resize=300%2C236&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p><strong>[This case is] one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online sports betting became widely legalized in the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Joseph Nocella, Jr., in a press conference earlier today <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/46695228\/sources-terry-rozier-arrested-part-gambling-inquiry\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">discussing the arrest<\/a> of 34 people, including Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers player and assistant coach Damon Jones, as the result of a years-long investigation related to illegal sports betting and rigged poker games. The fraud is described by authorities as \u201cmind-boggling\u201d and is linked to four Mafia families. In total, six of the defendants are accused of involvement in the sports betting scheme and 31, including Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups, are accused of involvement in the poker scheme.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[This case is] one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online sports betting became widely legalized in the United States. \u2014 Interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Joseph Nocella, Jr., in a press conference earlier today discussing the arrest of 34 people, including Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":135724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/760px-Basketball_through_hoop-5ZjkWJ.jpg?fit=760%2C599&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}