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Heat’s Rozier and Trail Blazers’ Billups charged in sports betting and Mafia-backed poker schemes

https://apnews.com/article/miami-heat-terry-rozier-gambling-probe-de98ecb76bb8f13b85f4c5ac62f66221

NEW YORK (AP) — Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier were arrested Thursday along with more than 30 other people accused of participating in schemes involving illegal sports betting and rigged poker games backed by the Mafia, authorities said.

Rozier is accused in participating in an illegal sports betting scheme using private insider NBA information, officials said. Billups is charged in a separate indictment alleging a wide-ranging scheme to rig underground poker games that were backed by Mafia families, authorities said.
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In the first case, six defendants are accused of participating in an insider sports betting conspiracy that exploited confidential information about NBA athletes and teams, said Joseph Nocella, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. He called it “one of the most brazen sports corruption schemes since online sports betting became widely legalized in the United States.”

The second case involves 31 defendants in a nationwide scheme to rig illegal poker games, Nocella said. The defendants include former professional athletes accused of using technology to steal millions of dollars in underground poker games in the New York area that were backed by Mafia families, he said.
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In the sports betting scheme, players sometimes altered their performance or took themselves out of games early, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. In one instance, Rozier, while playing for the Hornets, told people he was planning to leave the game early with a “supposed injury,” allowing them to place wagers that raked in thousands of dollars, Tisch said.

The indictment of Rozier and others says there are nine unnamed co-conspirators, including a Florida resident who was an NBA player, an Oregon resident who was an NBA player from about 1997 to 2014 and an NBA coach since at least 2021, as well as a relative of Rozier.

Unlike the turn-of-the-20th-Century "Black Sox" scandal this looks like players from several teams were in on it, possibly over a period of a decade or more.

Lay’s says 42% of customers didn’t know their chips were made from actual potatoes

Lay’s study shows fans forgot the snack’s main ingredient

As told in a press release on October 9, PepsiCo revealed that 42% of people who buy Lay’s potato chips “don’t realize they’re made with real, farm-grown potatoes.”

Fortune cited this finding as coming from a 2021 survey — and it seems it had a big impact on Lay’s new look. Now, their chip bags will feature images of real potatoes and other photographs of ingredients like limes, chili peppers, and onions.

“At Lay’s, delighting our consumers goes beyond bold flavors — it’s about delivering trusted quality from farm to bag,” PepsiCo Foods US’s SVP of Marketing, Denise Truelove, said.

The pertinent part to me of the whole thing is the survey, which I can't find anywhere, but is indicated in a couple of places (like above) to be market research done by Pepsico itself, who frankly would be more reliable and trying harder than most "polls".  Hopefully, the wording of the question is not "what are potato chips made from?" and almost half the respondents didn't know.  But I'm not holding my breath anymore given people's lack of awareness or ability to make logical connections. 

21 Year-Old Semi Driver Kills at Least 3 in Horrific SoCal Crash UPDATE: ILLEGAL

Worst part is my first thought was "Again?"  We had the one in Florida who apparently didn't actually pass the CDL test but somehow still was issued a license by Cali and killed 3 people making an illegal U-turn, now this?  How often has this happened and not made any headlines? 

imanamerican63 (15,558 posts)

"Well, you're the idiots who voted for him"!

I heard a waitress have a conversation with a couple of
older men who were having lunch.

I did not hear what one of the men say to the waitress, but whatever it was? The waitress was not happy and as she walked away from the table “well, you’re the idiots that voted for him”! She was not happy when came to my table to check on me. I didn’t say a word, but I knew she wasn’t going to anymore crap from them.

I finished my dinner, saw the men had left. She came back over and apologized. I said not to worry no apology needed. She explained that one of men was a relative and tries to start crap every time they come in. The men didn’t even leave a tip. I left her a well deserved tip and she was definitely appreciative of that. That’s was all crap was about, the new tax on tip scam(her words not mine).

The cruelty of this country stems mainly from one person and it rubs off on the people!

https://democraticunderground.com/100220741300

What is it with DUmmies and truck stops

Air is free have all you want 

21 Year-Old Semi Driver Kills at Least 3 in Horrific SoCal Crash UPDATE: ILLEGAL

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2025/10/22/21-year-old-semi-driver-kills-at-least-3-in-horrific-socal-crash-n3808117

Yesterday afternoon, in the Southwestern portion of San Bernardino County, CA, where the I-10 and the I-15 meet near the city of Ontario, there was a horrific freeway accident.
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On the I-10 yesterday, it was particularly dangerous because there was already a slowdown and traffic was coming to a complete stop, so eyes were focused on brake lights ahead.

That's when a red semi truck blew into and through the line of stopped vehicles like a tornado.

It never slowed down as it approached the traffic in front of it.
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However, the dashboard camera from the big-rig has been released, and it is so God awful, it defies description.

The eyewitness accounts were absolutely correct. He plows into the first cars he hits at full speed and goes through them like they were butter.
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Twenty-one years old, driving a massive freeway machine, and he was stoned.

Gobsmacking.

The fact that the state has not released the driver's name yet is also leading to increased speculation that there may be an issue with residency here. California and the Trump administration are at war over Gov Gavin Newsom's dangerous, relaxed standards for the state-issued Commercial Driver's Licenses (CDL), which is what truck drivers need to have.
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The man suspected of being under the influence when he crashed his tractor-trailer into a crowd of vehicles on the 10 Freeway Tuesday afternoon has been identified as a 21-year-old resident of Yuba City.

Authorities say Jashanpreet Singh was under the influence of drugs when his speeding truck crashed into several slow-moving vehicles caught in bumper-to-bumper traffic in the westbound lanes of the 10 Freeway.

Per an embedded X post, Jashanpreet Singh is illegally present in the US, caught-and-released in 2022 by the LIEden MalAdministration. Need it be said that since the guy resided in Yuba City, it means that the State of California issued his CDL, i.e. issued the CDL to an illegal alien?

In case a DU Onlurker chances to see this post, I have ZERO against Sikhs or against Indians generally. Sikhs have been legally present in CA for at least a century, and one of their sons or grandsons was a high school classmate.