Celebrity Scoop - The Songwriter Hall of Fame

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Movies, music, and all the gossip in one place. It's
the Celebritiescoop on Star one oh five point seven. Well,
we are continuing to follow breaking scoop involving eight sprawling
FBI probe into mafia link gambling and sports rigging schemes
that led to the arrests of over thirty people yesterday.

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That included Miami heat guard Terry Rozier and Portland Trailblazer's
head coach and former Piston Chauncey Billups. So to give
a breakdown, here's FBI Director Cash Pattel.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
As you now know, individuals such as Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones,
and Terry Rozier were taking into custody today former current
NBA players and coaches. What you don't know is that
this is an illegal gambling operation and sports rigging operation
that spanned the course of years. The FBI led a
coordinative takedown across eleven states to arrest over thirty individuals

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today responsible for this case, which is very much ongoing.
Not only did we crack into the fraud that these
perpetrators committed on the grand stage of the NBA, but
we also entered and executed a system of justice against
La Casinoshra to include the Bonano, Gambino, Genevesi and Luchase

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crime families, and you'll hear more about those details today.
The chargers and the arrest that were taking down across
this country range from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery,
illegal gambling.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
This goes deep. Now. The FEDS did not say whether
Billips was involved in any insider sports betting conspiracies that
did result in the arrest of Miami Heat guard Terry Rosier,
but they did say he was placed into custody for
his alleged role in an elaborate scheme to rig illegal
poker games that involved the mafia. One of those details

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included X ray tables. Now, the NBA has said that
both men that would be Chauncey and Terry are being
placed on leave. The investigation involved two major operations, insider
info which would allow bets to be placed on various
NBA games, and also high tech cheating technology that was

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used to steal millions from all different victims. There's a
lot here. I've got it all up for you at
West Michigan Star dot com. We did see Chauncey walk
out of a courthouse yesterday afternoon, but did not address reporters.
Taylor Swift among some major names including Kenny Loggins, LL
COOLJ Pink, Sarah McLaughlin, and Talking Heads David Byrne, who

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are the nominees for the twenty twenty six Songwriter Hall
of Fame. This is quite an colectic mix. We've got pop,
hip hop, folk and rock in a very bitter sweet moment.
There is also both Dewey Banell and Jeans excuse me
in a very bittersweet moment. There's also Gene Simmons and
Paul Stanley from Kiss of Course, just a couple of

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weeks after losing their bandmate Ace Frayley. There is a
ton of awesome names on the list. The twenty twenty
six inductees will officially be announced early next year. And finally,
I just adore her. Kylie Kelcey, of course, wife to
Jason Kelsey, who just retired from the Philadelphia Eagles last year,
has real podcast Not Gonna Lie, and yesterday was asked

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the question what were her rules for her husband playing
in the NFL, and she said, I really only had
one specific rule, but I often reminded him, was that
if a fight broke out, he better keep all ten
of his piggy toes on the outside of that field.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
She said.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
You want to know another way, they pop you if
you so much as step a foot onto that field
when you were not previously on the field. There's a
fight happening, you are out there, fine, fine dollars out
of your pocket, right into the NFL's she said. And
they do not f around with that. The whole podcast
you can hear right now on our free iHeartRadio app,
with the rest of your scoop up at West Michigan
Star dot com.