House committee meets with NBA officials after high-profile gambling indictments
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A congressional panel is scheduled to confer with National Basketball Association officials on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., following the recent federal indictments of Chauncey Billups, Terry Rozier and Damon Jones, according to sources familiar with the plans.
The closed-door session, described as informational, will bring staff and members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce together with league representatives to discuss the NBA’s relationships with sportsbooks and the safeguards it uses to stop the unlawful sharing of non-public information, the sources said.
Committee members formally asked for a briefing with commissioner Adam Silver in late October, but Silver is not expected to attend Wednesday’s meeting, the sources added.
Both House and Senate committees issued letters to the league shortly after Billups, Rozier and Jones were among 34 people arrested in a wide-ranging federal probe into allegedly rigged poker games and sports-betting schemes.
Jones, a former NBA guard and assistant coach, is due for arraignment at 2 p.m. ET on Thursday in federal court in Brooklyn, New York. Billups is slated to appear on Nov. 24, and Rozier is scheduled for Dec. 8, also in Brooklyn.
Source: ESPN
