LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - The story has gripped the nation, entangling professional basketball and the American Mafia in two federal gambling probes dubbed “Operation Royal Flush” and “Operation Nothing But Net.”

Friday, WAVE News uncovered new details about a Kentucky man named in one of the indictments, whom the FBI accuses of supplying cheating technology and organizing rigged poker games.

“The charges and the arrests that were taken down across this country range from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery, illegal gambling,” said Kash Patel, Director of the FBI.

According to the U.S. Justice Department, Robert Stroud was arrested by the FBI, one of 31 defendants arrested across 11 states, including members and associates of the Bonanno, Gambino, and Genovese organized crim

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