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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

The charges and the arrest that were taken down across this country range from wire fraud, money laundering, extortion, robbery, illegal gambling.

And the fraud is mind boggling. It's not hundreds of dollars. It's-boggling. It's not hundreds of dollars.

It's not thousands of dollars. It's not tens of thousands of dollars. It's not even millions of

dollars. We're talking about tens of millions of dollars in fraud and theft and robbery across

a multi-year investigation. That's Cash Patel. He runs the FBI.

You probably know that.

Talking about this big FBI arrest that involves an NBA coach or two or some players or whatever,

maybe some games fixed, although that seems to be a minor part of it.

It's mostly a giant, fraudulent poker game thing that was going on nationwide, being run by the big crime families

that were ripping people off to the tune of tens of millions of dollars.

Here's U.S. Attorney Joseph Nucela, explaining how the whole thing worked.

This is interesting. This is new stuff for me.

That's 42, Michael.

The scheme targeted victims known as, quote, fish,

who were often lured to participate in these rigged games

by the chance to play alongside former professional athletes who were known as, quote, face cards.

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