NBA Faces Rising Scrutiny Amid Mafia-Linked Gambling Scandal
TL;DR
Decades after a major crackdown, the New York Mafia remains active, notably involved in a sophisticated NBA-related gambling scam that rigged high-stakes poker games using advanced technology and mob muscle to collect debts, highlighting their ongoing influence in organized crime despite reduced visibility.
- After decades in the shadows, New York Mafia takes center-stage again in NBA-related gambling sting Fortune
- X-ray tables, marked cards and the Mafia: How the FBI says poker games were rigged ESPN
- Finance professor questions how NBA figures got into illegal gambling ties despite millions in fortune Fox News
- Adam Silver 'deeply disturbed' by Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups arrests, speaks on NBA's role in federal probe Yahoo Sports
- NBA coach and player among those arrested in massive mafia-linked sports rigging and gambling probe CNN
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