Chauncey Billups
Allegedly Leaked Group Data To Bettor
… Feds Point out
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Federal prosecutors indicated in courtroom paperwork this month that Chauncey Billups allegedly leaked confidential details about his Path Blazers to no less than one bettor.
Billups seems to be listed as “Co-Conspirator 8” in a now-unsealed indictment filed by feds final week in a New York courtroom.
The clues aren’t arduous to decipher … given “Co-Conspirator 8” is described as “an NBA player who played from roughly 1997 to 2014 who went on to become a coach in 2021.”
Billups, in fact, broke into the Affiliation with the Celtics in 1997, earlier than he wrapped his profession with Detroit in 2014. In 2021, he was named the pinnacle coach of Portland.
In response to the docs, “Co-Conspirator 8” knowledgeable a bettor on March 24, 2023 that the Blazers, who had been 32-40 on the time, had been tanking … and had been going to relaxation some key gamers for his or her matchup with the Chicago Bulls.
“The information,” prosecutors wrote within the paperwork, “that the Trail Blazers would be tanking and not playing [their star player] was not available to the public, including the Betting Companies.”
The bettor then allegedly took the knowledge to a different bettor and had them place a wager on the Blazers shedding.
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A short while later, the betting odds modified as soon as the Blazers’ plan to sit down gamers grew to become public.
Portland did go on to lose to Chicago, 124-96.
The feds didn’t say at their press convention on Thursday that Billups was concerned within the insider sports activities betting conspiracy that resulted within the arrest of Miami Warmth guard Terry Rozier earlier Thursday. They did, although, say he was positioned into custody for his alleged position in an elaborate scheme to rig unlawful poker video games that concerned the Mafia.
