{"id":642644,"date":"2026-03-06T07:07:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/642644\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T07:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T07:07:32","slug":"trial-date-for-billups-set-for-november-on-money-laundering-wire-fraud-charges-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/642644\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial date for Billups set for November on money laundering, wire fraud charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal trial for Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups will start Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>A judge set the date during a hearing in Brooklyn on Wednesday morning with all 30 defendants present.<\/p>\n<p>ABC News reported that federal prosecutors and defense attorneys will discuss how to divvy up the cases for trial.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors expect to extend plea offers to 12 defendants in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>They said at least nine other defendants are having \u201cproductive conversations\u201d about pleading guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Billups is <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/portland-trail-blazers-coach-chauncey-billups-arrested-in-gambling-operation-scandal-abc-news-kash-patel-fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">charged with money laundering and wire fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has <a href=\"https:\/\/katu.com\/news\/local\/blazers-head-coach-chauncey-billups-appears-in-federal-court-pleads-not-guilty-new-york-city-portland-trail-brookyln\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pleaded not guilty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear whether he is among the defendants working out a plea offer.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The NBA has placed Billups on leave during the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal trial for Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups will start Nov. 2. A judge set&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-642644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-portland","12":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","13":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","14":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116180972064165515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=642644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}