‘Mobbed-up’ NBA Gambling Suspect Nicholas ‘Fat Nick’ Minucci Did Time for Infamous 2005 Howard Beach Hate Attack

‘Mobbed-up’ NBA gambling suspect Nicholas ‘Fat Nick’ Minucci did time for infamous 2005 Howard Beach hate attack

One of the mobbed-up suspects busted in the NBA gambling case is Nicholas “Fat Nick” Minucci — whose vicious, racially charged baseball bat beating of a black man in Howard Beach captivated New Yorkers for months more than two decades ago.

NBA stars arrested for alleged lucrative gambling tied to mob

An NBA player and a head coach were detained as the FBI accused them of illegal sports betting and rigged poker games linked to organised crime.

Inside the mob-backed gambling ring that just shook the NBA

The FBI dropped a bombshell indictment on Thursday, announcing arrests and criminal charges against dozens of people allegedly involved with gambling and rigging NBA games. The whole thing involved not only some of basketball’s biggest names, but also the mob.  At a press conference in New York, FBI Director Kash Patel announced “a historic arrest across a wide-sweeping criminal enterprise that envelopes both the NBA and “La Cosa Nostra,” more c…

Feds unveil sweeping indictments linking NBA figures and mob families to illegal gambling schemes

Federal authorities on Thursday announced two sweeping indictments implicating mob families and current and former NBA players in a nationwide network of