A reputed mobster arrested in Thursday’s explosive NBA gambling scandal pleaded guilty just last week to unrelated charges that he violently tried to take over the Big Apple’s garbage business.

Alleged Gambino capo Joseph Lanni, a k a “Mommino,” was accused Thursday of taking part in a multimillion-dollar ring of rigged poker games run by mobsters who enlisted NBA notables — former player and Portland Trail Blazer’s coach Chancey Billups and ex-Cavalier Damon Jones — to attract victims to play.

The arrest occurred less than a week after he pleaded guilty Oct. 17 alongside six other reputed wiseguys to heading a sprawling racket that used extortion, witness retaliation and other crimes to try to bring the city’s trash and demolition business under his control, prosecutors said at

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