(NewsNation) — While Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups and Miami Heat player Terry Rozier were the most notable arrests made in a massive federal indictment for illegal sports gambling and poker game rigging, several mafia groups were also implicated.

“The fraud is mind-boggling,” FBI Director Kash Patel said, emphasizing that the arrests are part of a yearslong illegal gambling investigation that “envelops both the NBA and La Casa Nostra.”

“Not only did we crack into the fraud that these perpetrators committed on the grand stage of the NBA, but we also entered and executed a system of justice against La Cosa Nostra to include the Bonanno, Gambino, Genovese and Luchese crime families,” Patel said.

La Cosa Nostra is a name for the alliance of several mafia organizations. In m

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