{"id":14264,"date":"2025-10-23T22:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14264\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T22:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T22:19:14","slug":"indictment-alleging-participation-in-rigged-illegal-poker-games-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/14264\/","title":{"rendered":"Indictment Alleging Participation in Rigged Illegal Poker Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"g-doc-image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/packages\/flash\/multimedia\/ICONS\/transparent.png\" alt=\"Page 12 of 22\" aria-describedby=\"page-12-text\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761250813_178_output-12.png\" width=\"1696\" height=\"2212\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"page-12-text\" class=\"g-doc-text\">Grand Jury, who had previously supplied Rigged Shuffling Machines. Specifically, on or about September 7, 2023, the defendants AMMAR AWAWDEH, OSMAN HOTI, JOHN MAZZOLA, NICHOLAS MINUCCI and ROBERT STROUD conspired to commit and committed a gunpoint robbery of John Doe #7 to steal a specific model of Rigged Shuffling Machine from John Doe #7 that the defendants wanted to use in the illegal poker games.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n47.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nCOUNT ONE&#13;<br \/>\n(Wire Fraud Conspiracy)&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nThe allegations contained in paragraphs one through 46 are realleged and&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nincorporated as if fully set forth in this paragraph.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n48. In or about and between April 2019 and the present, both dates being&#13;<br \/>\napproximate and inclusive, within the Eastern District of New York and elsewhere, the defendants ERNEST AIELLO, NELSON ALVAREZ, also known as \u201cSpanish G,\u201d LOUIS APICELLA, also known as \u201cLou Ap,&#8221; AMMAR AWAWDEH, also known as \u201cFlapper Poker&#8221; and &#8220;Flappy,&#8221; SAUL BECHER, CHAUNCEY BILLUPS, MATTHEW DADDINO, also known as &#8220;Matty&#8221; and &#8220;The Wrestler,\u201d ERIC EARNEST, also known as &#8220;Spook,&#8221; LEE FAMA, JOHN GALLO, MARCO GARZON, THOMAS GELARDO, also known as \u201cJuice,\u201d JAMIE GILET, TONY GOODSON, also known as &#8220;Black Tony,\u201d KENNY HAN, SHANE HENNEN, also known as &#8220;Sugar,\u201d HORATIO HU, also known as &#8220;H,\u201d ZHEN HU, also known as &#8220;Jonathan Chan,&#8221; &#8220;Jonathan Hu,\u201d \u201cScruli\u201d and \u201cStanley,\u201d DAMON JONES, also known as \u201cDee Jones,&#8221; JOHN MAZZOLA, also known as &#8220;John South,\u201d CURTIS MEEKS, also known as &#8220;Curt,&#8221; NICHOLAS MINUCCI, MICHAEL RENZULLI, ANGELO RUGGIERO, JR., ANTHONY SHNAYDERMAN, also known as \u201cDoc,\u201d ROBERT STROUD, also known as \u201cBlack Rob,&#8221; SETH TRUSTMAN, SOPHIA WEI, also known as \u201cPookie,\u201d and JULIUS ZILIANI, also known as &#8220;Jay,&#8221; together with others, did knowingly and intentionally conspire to devise a&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grand Jury, who had previously supplied Rigged Shuffling Machines. Specifically, on or about September 7, 2023, the defendants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-14264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}