The "they" in Wei's text message refers to Billups and Earnest, meaning investigators believe Billups was not just the famous athlete at the table brought in to draw wealthy players to the game, but a member of the cheating team who not knew the signals they used to cheat, and followed them to defraud victims. "The thing that scares me for Chauncey is that he's dealing with these mob guys," one close associate of Billups told ESPN. "If this is true, if he set people up. ... It could get nasty."

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