Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups pleaded not guilty to charges of profiting from rigged poker games involving Mafia figures and a former NBA player, facing potential sentences of up to 20 years for money laundering and wire fraud conspiracy. Billups, who has maintained his innocence through his attorney, is accused of being a “face card” in a scheme that defrauded victims of $7 million since 2019, while also drawing attention to illegal operations linked to organized crime.
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