October 23, 2025 – PBS News Hour full episode
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🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. I'm Jeff Bennett. Anlan Navaz is away. On the news hour tonight, current and former NBA stars are arrested, accused in a sprawling illegal gambling scheme that allegedly involved faked injuries, rigged poker games, and ties to organize crime. |
| 0:21.1 | Congress fails to agree on proposals to pay federal workers affected by what is now the second |
| 0:25.8 | longest government shutdown in U.S. history. |
| 0:29.2 | And Pennsylvania's top election official responds to the Justice Department's repeated efforts |
| 0:33.9 | to obtain voter data. |
| 0:36.3 | In the United States of America, it's the states who run elections, not the federal government. |
| 0:40.3 | Welcome to the News Hour. |
| 0:57.5 | There are troubling questions tonight for the NBA about gambling after the FBI arrested |
| 1:02.7 | one of its players and a Hall of Fame head coach. |
| 1:05.9 | They are among dozens of people charged today in a federal investigation alleging illegal |
| 1:10.7 | sports betting |
| 1:11.6 | and rigged poker games organized by the mafia. |
| 1:14.6 | Combined, the two schemes involved millions of dollars, and the details around these cases |
| 1:19.6 | are causing some to question the integrity of the NBA itself and its connections to the legalized |
| 1:25.6 | gambling industry that exploded in popularity. |
| 1:28.7 | William Brangham has more so. William, how sprawling is this investigation? |
| 1:33.7 | Jeff, it is quite vast. More than 30 people have been arrested across 11 states. |
| 1:39.3 | In two different indictments, the suspects are charged with crimes including money laundering, extortion, robbery, and illegal gambling. U.S. Attorney Joseph Nosella of the Eastern District |
| 1:50.2 | in New York detailed today how star players, like the Miami Heat's Terry Rozier, used inside |
| 1:57.0 | information about players for betting purposes. These defendants perpetrated a scheme to defraud by betting on inside non-public information about NBA athletes and teams. |
| 2:11.6 | The non-public information included when specific players would be sitting out future games, or when they would pull themselves out early for purported injuries or illnesses. |
| 2:23.1 | The investigation also accuses several defendants of running rigged poker games, where victims were lured into playing with former NBA stars. |
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