X-ray tables? Card-reading contact lenses? The ... Mafia?

No, it's not the plot of a George Clooney movie or even another Louvre heist. It's a massive, real-life illegal gambling probe involving players and coaches from the National Basketball Association and, yes, the Mafia.

The specific allegations in the FBI's investigation that's thrown the NBA into chaos are, to quote FBI director Kash Patel, "mind boggling."

"It's not thousands of dollars. It's not tens of thousands of dollars. It's not even millions of dollars. We're talking about tens of millions of dollars in fraud, in theft, in robbery, across a multi-year investigation," Patel told reporters.

On Thursday, the FBI announced it had conducted a "massive, nationwide takedown" of two separate and illegal poker and sports-be

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