The FBI on Thursday, Oct. 23, announced the arrest of more than 30 people in connection with a pair of alleged gambling rings on charges of conspiring to commit fraud, money laundering, illegal gambling and extortion.
Among those arrested were Basketball Hall of Famer and current Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups, Miami Heat guard and 10-year NBA veteran Terry Rozier and former Cleveland Cavaliers player and coach Damon Jones.
The investigations involved an alleged insider sports-betting conspiracy and an alleged scheme to rig illegal poker games. Several people, including Jones, were named in both.
Here is the full list of people, along with their aliases, included in the two indictments:
People named in NBA gambling probe indictment
- Eric Earnest (‘Spook’)
- Marves Fairley (‘Vez,’ ‘Vezino’ or ‘Vezino Locks’)
- Shane Hennen (‘Sugar’)
- Damon Jones (‘Dee Jones’)
- Deniro Laster (‘Niro,’ ‘Payso’ or ‘Peso’)
- Terry Rozier (‘Scary Terry’ or ‘Chum’)
People named in FBI ‘Rigged Poker Scheme’ indictment
- Ernest Aiello
- Nelson Alvarez (‘Spanish G’)
- Louis Apicella (‘Lou Ap’)
- Ammar Awawdeh (‘Flapper Poker’ or ‘Flappy’)
- Saul Becher
- Chauncey Billups
- Matthew Daddino (‘Matty’ or ‘The Wrestler’)
- Eric Earnest (‘Spook’)
- Lee Fama
- John Gallo
- Marco Garzon
- Thomas Gelardo (‘Juice’)
- Jamie Gilet
- Tony Goodson (‘Black Tony’)
- Kenny Han
- Shane Hennen (‘Sugar’)
- Osman Hoti (‘Albanian Bruce’ or ‘Big Bruce’)
- Horatio Hu (‘H’)
- Zhen Hu (‘Jonathan Chan,’ ‘Scruli’ or ‘Stanley’)
- Damon Jones (‘Dee Jones’)
- Joseph Lanni
- John Mazzola (‘John South’)
- Curtis Meeks (‘Curt’)
- Nicholas Minucci
- Michael Renzulli
- Anthony Ruggiero Jr.
- Anthony Shnayderman (‘Doc’)
- Robert Stroud (‘Black Rob’)
- Seth Trustman
- Sophia Wei (‘Pookie’)
- Julius Ziliani (‘Jay’)
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