PORTLAND, OR — Portland Trail Blazers coach Chauncey Billups was arraigned Oct. 23 on charges of wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse in Portland, Oregon.
Billups was indicted, along with more than 30 people, in the Eastern District of New York for his role in bringing victims to rigged poker games.
Billups appeared in a packed Portland courtroom at 1:30 p.m. wearing a brown sweatshirt and gray pants, only saying “Yes,” when Judge Jolie A. Russo asked if he understood his right to remain silent.
After his eight-minute arraignment, in which he was granted his release on the condition he stay only in Oregon and Colorado, Billups looked around the courtroom and was taken away.
Billups is required to turn over his passport and secure a bond in the Eastern District of New York, where he was originally charged. The judge did not say how much the bond was, only that it was substantial.
