‘This operation involved an expansive effort across 11 states arresting 31 subjects’
By Bob Unruh
As if professional sports in America weren’t already facing enough headwinds, with “wokism” running amok and such.
Now the FBI has confirmed that onetime University of Colorado basketball player and now Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier are under arrest.
Also former NBA guard and coach Damon Jones, and dozens more.
A report from Fox news explained, “The investigation was tied to a probe into members of the La Cosa Nostra crime families.”
FBI chief Kash Patel said, in a statement, “Day in and day out, this FBI is following the money — and today is the result of that outstanding work. This operation involved an expansive effort across 11 states arresting 31 subjects, including multiple NBA players and coaches, who allegedly took advantage of their own positions of power to rig gambling systems for their own benefit — eventually funneling money to La Cosa Nostra, enriching some of the most notorious criminal networks in the world.
“That ends today — and the FBI’s efforts to make sure gambling operations of all kinds stay within the law are only beginning. Thank you to the outstanding men and women of the FBI who pursued this case and followed the facts accordingly.”