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| Chauncey Billups. (Blake Benard) |
It sounded a little off to me. Near as I can tell all these games were private, they weren't held in any licensed venues, like a casino, which makes me wonder why they are any of the FBI's business in the first place. Further, it strikes me that someone who is playing poker with people he doesn't know is a mark looking to get fleeced.
Then I picked up a copy of Willamette Week in a coffee shop down in South Waterfront this morning, and found this story:
The federal case against Chauncey Billups look flimsy to criminal lawyers.
Wherein I found this little tidbit:
"They are playing in an illegal poker game," the [New York criminal defense] lawyer, also a former Federal prosecutor, said. "There's a certain Caveat Emptor that comes with that."
All in all it sounds a like a big power play. The Feds want to bust some Mafia big shots, but the only thing they've got is this gambling scam. Well, remember how they got Al Capone - Income Tax evasion. So that might what they are doing here. Chauncy apparently had little to no actual involvement with this scam, but he ranks highest on the celebrity scale, so they put his name front and center in all their announcements to the media.
P. S. Previous post that mentions Chauncy.
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