"The Deckmate 2 automatic card shufflers used in casinos, cardhouses, 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 roles in a vast rigged-gambling conspiracy. (Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier was charged in a separate alleged gambling scheme, along with Jones and four others.)"
"The 31 defendants in the first indictment are charged with running a ring of high-stakes private poker games from New York to the Hamptons to Miami, allegedly luring victims with the prospect of playing with NBA stars and then fleecing them for tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars with multiple high-tech cheating systems-among them, hacked card shufflers set up to secretly transmit exactly what cards each player would have in their hand."
Deckmate 2 automatic card shufflers contain a camera that can observe every card in the deck before it is dealt. Hackers exploited that camera access to transmit exact card information and enable high-tech cheating. Prosecutors unsealed an indictment charging 31 people, including alleged organized-crime members and two NBA figures, with a broad rigged-gambling conspiracy. The defendants are accused of running high-stakes private poker rings across New York, the Hamptons, and Miami, luring victims to play with NBA stars and fleecing them for tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Prosecutors say the schemes took more than $7 million and funneled money to La Cosa Nostra.
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