Since the invention of the card game, players have been looking for ways to stack the deck. Now, with the development of automated card shufflers, it would appear that a group well practiced in such illicit activities—the Costa Nostra mafia—may have found a new way to rig games for easy money. And, weirdly enough, those games are alleged to have involved a bunch of current and former NBA officials and players, who are now in quite a bit of trouble.

A new federal indictment claims that members of organized crime families hosted games that used hacked card shufflers. Those shufflers allowed the players who were in on the ruse to play accordingly and win big time, the indictment claims. The story was originally picked up by Wired, which says it managed to reproduce a hack of one particul

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