According to a release by United States Attorney Office of Central California, Gilbert Arenas was arrested on Wednesday in connection with a federal prosecution, alleging that the former NBA star hosted an illegal high-stake poker game in his mansion east of the NBA.
Arenas is officially accused with a count of a conspiracy to conduct an illegal gambling business, a count of an illegal gambling business operations and a count to the federal investigators.
He appeared in the US district court in Los Angeles on Wednesday afternoon and was released on a $ 50,000 bond after not being convicted for the allegations. Their test is scheduled for 23 September.
His lawyer, Jerome Freedberg, said outside the courtyard that he did not have much time to talk with his customer and could not comment on the case.
“In this case, he is considered innocent, isn’t it?” Freedberg said. “He has equal rights to any other citizen for that estimate and he should be treated in this way.”
Yevgeni “Jiora” Gorshman, a suspected high -level member of an Israeli organized crime group, and four other colleagues were also convicted and arrested in connection with the alleged illegal business, which prosecutors say that the prosecutors say that from September 2021 to July 2022.
According to the indictment, Arenas rented his Anino House and one of his colleagues staged a mansion for a poker game, admitted co-scripts to host and collected fare from co-scriptors from Arenas.
The prosecution alleged that Gorshman and other defendants ran the illegal “pot limit Omaha” poker game among others, which collected a cut contest from each pot.
Prosecutors say that the group has hired the games for employees, wallets and armed security guards, as well as the beverages that the young women served, massaged and offered the poker players to the players in exchange for tips-and co-speculators cut server tips from the games.
It was not clear till Wednesday who was the players in the Games. The US lawyer’s office rejected further remarks.
If convicted, Arenas and other defendants will have to face a five -year statutory maximum punishment in the federal prison for each count.
This is not the first time Arenas has found itself in trouble related to card games. In December 2009, Arenas and Washington wizards Teammight Javaris cretanton He was involved in an incident where he used to bring guns to the locker room, which Arenas later said that the team’s flight was a result of talking to garbage with a card game.
Aranas, 43, was last played at NBA in 2012 Memphis Grizzle’sThree-time all-star scored 20.7 points per game in parts of 11 season with Vizards, Grizzleez, Golden State Warriors And Orlando magic,
Information of Associated Press was used in this report.
