FBI's Shocking NBA Gambling Bust, Trump's Cartel Roundtable, Adams Endorses Cuomo: AM Update 10/24
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Jashinsky, host of After Party, filling in today for Megyn Kelly. It's Friday, October 24th, 2025, and this is your AM Update.
The FBI led a coordinated takedown across 11 states to arrest over 30 individuals today responsible for this case.
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The FBI arresting more than 30 people, including an NBA coach and player, as well as members of multiple mafia families in a dramatic Thursday bust across two major indictments. Names you may know if you're an NBA fan among the busted Portland Trailblazers head coach and former player Chauncey Billups. current Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, former Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach Damon Jones, and the Bonanno, Genovese, Lucchese, and Gambino crime families. One indictment relating to insider sports betting on NBA games, the other related to rigged poker matches. The details are scandalous. FBI Director Kash Patel on Thursday speaking to the scale of the operation.
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. The charges and the arrests that were taken down across this country range from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery, illegal gambling.
According to Director Patel, the damage is totaling in the tens of millions of dollars in fraud, theft, and robbery. First, the NBA cheating indictment. According to the feds, six defendants involved in what U.S. attorney Joseph Nacella calls, quote, one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online sports betting became widely legalized in the United States. Rozier and Jones allegedly passing non-public information to the other co-defendants.
the non-public information included when specific players would be sitting out future games or when they would pull themselves out early for purported injuries or illnesses and in at least one instance they got their information by threatening a current player Porter, because of his pre-existing gambling bets. Defendants used this non-public information to place hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent bets, mostly in the form of prop bets on individual player performance. The bets were placed through online sportsbooks and also in person at casinos. The defendants then laundered their illegal winnings in various ways. The defendants profited from illegal gambling and illegal betting on various NBA games about the performance of players on, among other things, the Charlotte Hornets, the Portland Trailblazers, the Los Angeles Lakers, and the Toronto Rangers.
Each defendant in the NBA basketball gambling case has been charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Rozier arrested in Orlando, his attorney releasing a statement reading in part, quote, In the other indictment, authorities alleging a multi-year, multi-city operation targeting so-called fish.
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–1:27
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What happened in the FBI’s nationwide NBA gambling and poker-rigging bust?
1:27–10:57
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Which NBA figures and mafia families were named in the indictments?
10:57–16:42
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How did prosecutors describe the insider betting scheme and evidence against Rozier and Jones?
16:42–17:38
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