Overview
- All defendants, including Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones, appeared in Brooklyn federal court for a status hearing where Judge Ramon E. Reyes Jr. set the case to begin trial on Nov. 2.
- Prosecutors said formal plea agreements will be offered in the coming days to 12 defendants, with “productive” negotiations ongoing with at least nine more; the government did not name which defendants are involved.
- A source told CBS News that Billups is not among those expected to take a plea, and he remains on unpaid administrative leave after pleading not guilty and posting a $5 million bond.
- The government detailed massive discovery, including more than 100,000 pages of financial and phone records, over 800 surveillance photos, pole‑camera footage from a Manhattan poker site, and roughly 7 terabytes of electronic data.
- Indictments allege mob-backed games used rigged shufflers, marked cards, hidden cameras and optical devices, with athletes used as “face cards” to attract victims; prosecutors also cited a $50,000 wire to Billups after an October 2020 game, and a related sports-betting case involves Terry Rozier, who has pleaded not guilty.