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2021-10-7 23:07:46
BREAKING: 18 former NBA players have been arrested and charged federally for defrauding the NBA’s Health and Welfare Benefit Plan out of approximately $4,000,000, law enforcement officials say.
Among the ex-NBA players charged in the alleged fraud case: Tony Allen, Glen "Big Baby" Davis and Darius Miles.
According to the grand jury indictment, the defendants allegedly engaged in a widespread scheme from at least 2017 up to around 2020 to defraud the NBA Players' Health and Welfare Benefit Plan by submitting fake reimbursement claims for medical and dental services that were never actually rendered.
Williams allegedly orchestrated the years-long scheme and recruited other NBA health plan participants to assist by offering them fake invoices to support their allegedly false health plan claims. He is accused of receiving kickback payments totaling at least $230,000 in return for providing the alleged false documentation.
The 34-year-old Williams also allegedly helped three co-defendants -- Ronald Glen Davis, Charles Watson Jr. and Antoine Wright -- obtain fake letters of medical necessity to justify some of the services on which the false invoices were based.
Among the ex-NBA players charged in the alleged fraud case: Tony Allen, Glen "Big Baby" Davis and Darius Miles.