Will the National Basketball Association (NBA) do anything about its gambling problems? Just how deep does this gambling scandal go, and how many others — players, coaches, referees and NBA officials — might be implicated over the months ahead?
Here, Michael Franzese takes a look. Franzese is a former mobster in the Colombo crime family in New York City.
It’s the one family that didn’t get wrapped up in the FBI’s recent raid involving rigged NBA games as well as related and equally rigged poker matches at New York townhomes.
One of the two New York townhomes where the National Basketball Association poker games occurred is the former Greenwich Village residence of Kylie Kardashian. She lived in the apartment during the Covid-19 pandemic with rapper Travis Scott, whom she had met at the Coachella Music Festival. They were together, on and off, between 2017 and 2023. The Greenwich Village townhouse has six bedrooms and eight bathrooms across six stories.
The FBI says four of the five York Mafia families acquired this same complex and converted it into a gambling den where rubes were bilked out of millions of dollars. The FBI, who led the NBA raids, alleged that Mob-connected dealers used X-Ray tables and hidden cameras to track cards and rig the games. The FBI did not arrest either Kardashian or Scott, but did bring charges against 34 individuals, including professional NBA players, former players and a coach.
Liz Crokin, who has been in the forefront of exposing child trafficking operations, says, ” The posh Greenwich Village property is one of two locations in NYC where the federal government claim four of Manhattan’s most powerful crime families were running rigged games of poker and swindling victims out of millions in 2023. Jenner lived there with ex-boyfriend Scott in 2021 while she was pregnant with their second child. The couple were renting the townhouse and it was featured in a 2023 episode of The Kardashians — the same year Mafia members and NBA stars were allegedly using it to host one of their main illegal poker games, according to the indictment.”
Crokin says Kardashian got into the apartment through the dealings of Lou M. Taylor. That might sound like a dude, but that’s the professional name of a woman, Louise Mary Taylor. In addition to serving as agent for Kylie Kardashian’s cosmetic line King Kyle Holdings, LLC, Taylor formerly was business manage of Britney Spears and P. Diddy. In her 2021 documentary about Britney Spears — Slave Princess — Crokin introduced Taylor.
Here, we bring you an interview Crokin did three years ago with the YouTube channel That Surprise Witness, focusing on Spears and Taylor. We follow with the full documentary Slave Princess for those of you who might not have seen it yet.
We believe there will be much more to come in this story. Could P. Diddy be snitching and exposing the dirty doings of his former associates in order to reduce the prison time he faces? How many others will get dragged into this scandal? Christopher Raia, the FBI’s assistant director in charge of the New York field office, called this past week’s indictments “just the tip of the iceberg.”
I’m breaking down the NBA gambling scandal that just broke – Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups, and 34 others arrested in a massive FBI operation targeting four of the five New York families.
I ran 12 bookmakers for 30 years, so I know exactly how this works. Athletes are easy prey. They get in deep, owe money, then we own them. Rozier allegedly faked an injury to help inside bets. Billups was a “face card,” luring victims into rigged poker games with X-ray tables and card counting devices.
I’ve been warning the NBA, NCAA, and 300+ universities about this for decades. This won’t stop. Gambling is too lucrative and the mob is too smart. Here’s the real story behind Operation Zen Diagram and Operation Nothing But Net from someone who lived it: Michael Franzese.
“They dropped the ball.” Shaquille O’Neal reacts to the NBA/Mafia game rigging scheme. Here’s more from M.J. Truth.
The Oklahoma City Thunder won the National Basketball Association championship a couple of weeks ago over the Indiana Pacers, but did the Pacers invoke “devil magic” to keep the series tight?
Watch as Pascal Siakam performs a bizarre pregame ritual with his Indiana Pacers teammates. Here’s more from Riss Flex.
Today, we expose the dark side of history and the elites. In this update, the discussion turns to Sabbatai Zevi and Jacob Joseph Frank, prominent Jews who hid their origins, becoming Muslims, Christians or members of other religions. Was this deception a matter of self-preservation, or something more sinister?
How does it relate today when we see Satanists who have rooted themselves into Christianity, Judaism and Islam, causing wars and dissent. Here’s more from Candace Owens.
The overseers of Major League Baseball have now proven themselves to be just as idiotic as their counterparts in the National Football League and National Basketball Association. To protest Georgia’s attempts to reform its election laws, MLB has announced it will move the All-Star Game out of Atlanta, costing the state of Georgia upwards of $100 million in tourist revenue.
The fact of the matter is: The new law will make it tougher for election fraud to occur in Georgia. In our estimation, that’s a step in the right direction. There was ample evidence of widespread cheating in the 2020 election, with Atlanta being one of the hotspots for the thievery.
Styxhexenhammer666 says “not many SJWs watch sports, MLB.” Why is a sports league trying to dictate election laws anyway? MLB can’t even decide whether to apply the DH, or designated hitter, in both the American and National Leagues!
The bottom line: It’s now time to boycott MLB the same as we have stopped going to NFL or NBA games. Does that mean you can’t buy a pack of baseball cards? That’s up for you to decide yourself.
But if each of us cancels purchasing some tickets, or touring major league parks, the MLB will feel the economic crunch. And they need to get hit — hard. So hard, they stick with playing the game, as opposed to ever again maliciously trying to dictate our national politics.
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks National Basketball Association franchise, has banned the playing of the National Anthem at his team’s home games. Guess it’s no longer the “National” Basketball Association. Probably now the “Communist” Basketball Association, seeing as how it’s a Cuban behind the banning! More from Steve Turley.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The NBA apparently was taken aback by Cuban’s announcement and quickly declared that the Dallas Mavericks, along with all other NBA teams, must play the National Anthem before home games.)
