Celebrity Scoop - Chauncey Billups Arrested

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place. It's
the celebrities gup on Star one oh five point seven.
All right, good morning guys at Schmidty. We'll get to
the news that was breaking just as I was coming
off the air yesterday. Former Pistons and now head coach
Chauncey Billups allegedly scored more than fifty thousand dollars from

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one of the rigged poker games authorities say he participated
in several years ago. Federal prosecutors have given new court
documents that say back in October of twenty twenty, Billips
was rewarded with the cash after he helped a group
of alleged crooks swindle someone out of loads of money
by cheating during a game of high stakes cards. The

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Feds claim the scheme Billups and his co conspirators cooked
up involved a advanced technology like tampering with deck shufflers
X ray tables, as well as players who were subtly
working with one another to gang up on their victim.
The plan worked on one way back in twenty twenty twenty,
and Phillips was wire the money. Documents alleged the Hall

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of Fame player was a crucial part of the plot,
as his status helped lure wealthy victims into playing in
these games. They also claim former Cleveland clapp Cleveland Cavaliers
guard Damon Jones was eventually recruited to play a similar role.
This is massive. Prosecutors say they have several phone messages
that show some of the defendants texting these players during

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a September twenty twenty three game. In one of those messages,
a player wrote to Jones that he was paying attention
to cheating clues that were being passed around the table,
all while referencing other NBA superstars. This is insane. Prosecutors
claim that all of the cash together was a massive amount.
This went on for years and years and years and

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involved crime families and mafia ties. Now this could be
very interesting. Of course, Chauncey was arrested yesterday morning. We
did see him leaving the Core house in the afternoon
after an indictment came down. It's going to be a
lot to take in and I'll have more coming up
in next scoop about what the FBI had cash. Pattel

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has to say about this massive arrest. It includes tons
of different people and at least four major crime families. Meanwhile,
Shaquille O'Neal pulled no punches weighing in on this FBI
investigation into the Mafia led illegal sports betting operation. In
an NBA moment last night, he said, it's just so despicable.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
I'm ashamed that those guys will put their families and
their careers in jeopardy. That there's all saying in the hood.
All money ain't good money. So if you're making nine
million dollars and you're dealing a certain thing, like how much,
how much more do you need? Especially especially if you
know you get caught, you can do jail time, lose
your career, you know, put and put, you know, put

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put a bad image on yourself or your family or
on the NBA. I agree with you, Truck, they dropped
the ball. Never want to have your name involved in that.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
When you know the letter of what, when you know
the letter of the law. This is inside the NBA.
He says, he knows both Chauncey and Damon Jones very
very well, and this is going to be a big
problem for the NBA. Finally, Johnny DApp planning his big
Hollywood return, booking a major starring role in Get This
You'll Love It. My Christmas Faan, the reimagining of Charles

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Dickens a Christmas Carol. Apparently depis in final negotiations to
play Ebenezer himself. This is in works at Paramount. It
has a few stars already signed on. They say that
this will be a thrilling ghost story set in Dickens, London,
following one man's supernatural journey to face his past, present
and future. They say it's been a very busy year

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for Johnny with more projects on the horizon. He will
also be directing and starring in Mody, which also stars
al Pacino, which hits theaters November seventh. He's got an
art exhibition that sound its way, but is really really
excited for this Charles Dickson Charles Dickens adaptation, which he
says drops in theaters November of twenty twenty six. I've

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got more details for you with your scoop at West
Michigan Star dot com.