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Billups was charged only over his involvement in rigged poker games, where prosecutors say he was recruited to lure in wealthy players, and pocketed a share of the proceeds.

Damon Jones, a retired player and former assistant coach, was accused of participating in rigged poker games and passing along confidential team information for illegal wagers.

According to documents, hidden cameras, programmable card shuffling machines and X-ray tables were among the pieces of technology used to steal tens of millions from victims during rigged poker games.

Rigged underground games run by the New York Mafia.

The teams, according to court filings, used rigged shuffling machines that read deck cards and predicted which player on the table would have the best poker hand and relayed that information to someone, referred to as the operator.