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Four of the city’s five Mafia families were part of a high-tech scheme that netted $7 million, prosecutors said, by fleecing high rollers at illegal poker games.
You can picture the scene. Tucked somewhere between the glitter and grit of Manhattan, a room wafting smoke with the rhythm of a poker game seemingly like any other: Cards whisper against felt, chips click in steady tempo,
The Genovese family, founded by Lucky Luciano, earned a reputation as the “Ivy League” of organized crime – disciplined, secretive, and immensely profitable. Its long-serving boss Vincent “The Chin” Gigante even feigned insanity to avoid prosecution.
"As Ray Liotta said in Goodfellas: 'We were treated like movie stars with muscle'," said attorney Ed McDonald, who, as the real-life prosecutor who managed former mobster-turned-FBI informant Henry Hill, played himself in the iconic film.
The Portland Trail Blazers' head coach was released from federal custody Thursday. He faces charges connected to allegedly rigged illegal poker games.
NBA head coach Chauncey Billups and former Cleveland Cavaliers player and coach Damon Jones are among the defendants who were arrested on Thursday, Oct. 23 for allegedly using wireless technology to 'cheat people out of millions of dollars' during illegal poker games,
IN 1990s Philadelphia two mafia factions went into battle – and the city’s streets became a bloody warzone. Brutal killings, mob hits and gangland violence ensued that was so sickening it
More than 30 people were indicted on charges related to rigged, high-dollar poker games that allegedly involved NBA stars and organized crime families,
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