A seven-count indictment unsealed in Brooklyn outlines a high-tech illegal gambling operation that involved 31 people, including two Georgian men. The scheme involved players using rigged shuffling machines, marked cards, and hidden technology to fix underground poker games in New York City, the Hamptons, and other cities across the US. The goal was to cheat unsuspecting players out of millions of dollars and funnel the money to La Cosa Nostra’s Bonanno, Gambino, and Genovese crime families. Federal agents arrested all 31 defendants in coordinated raids across 11 states early Thursday. Two Georgian men, Tony “Black Tony” Goodson and John “John South” Mazzola, are accused of helping supply the technology used to rig poker games. The group relied on well-known athletes to draw victims to the tables, with Billups and Jones acting as “Face Cards” to lend the operation credibility. Additional gadgets, such as x-ray poker tables, chip tray cameras, and special contact lenses for reading marked cards, were also part of the operation.