Federal prosecutors allege that Chauncey Billups and Damon Jones served as the “face cards” to lure victims into rigged poker games that took place in four different cities in the United States.

Billups, the Basketball Hall of Famer and Trail Blazers head coach, and Jones, a former NBA player and assistant coach, are alleged to have been used to attract victims, who were described as “fish” during a press conference on Thursday announcing the earth-shattering and “historic” indictments related to an FBI sports betting and poker probe.

“What the victims, the ‘fish,’ didn’t know is that everybody else at the poker game, from the dealer to the players, including the ‘face cards,’ were in on the scam,” Joseph Nocella Jr., the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said durin

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