The Deckmate 2 automatic card shufflers used in casinos, card houses, and high-end private poker games around the world are designed to shuffle a deck in seconds with perfect, computer-generated randomness, vastly speeding up play. They're also, amazingly, sold with a camera inside that can observe every card in the deck before it's dealt—a fact that's become very convenient for poker-cheating hackers and, allegedly, members of the Cosa Nostra mafia.

On Thursday, the United States Justice Department unsealed an indictment against 31 people , including alleged members of several organized crime families along with two well-known figures in the NBA—Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and former player and assistant coach Damon Jones—for what prosecutors describe as their role

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