More than a dozen former NBA players have been charged in New York federal court in an alleged multi-million-dollar health insurance fraud scheme to rip off the league’s benefit plan, according to an indictment unsealed in the Southern District on Thursday.
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.
The 34-year-old Williams also allegedly helped three co-defendants -- 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. Fake chiropractic treatment invoices were allegedly also created for Davis, Watson Jr. and Wright and emailed to Williams. The template had the date, invoice number, services and a charge of $15,000 filled in but left the"bill to" box, where the name of the patient would ordinarily be found, blank, according to the indictment.
In another example, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said at a news conference, defendant Gregory Smith submitted paperwork for $48,000 worth of root canals and crowns on eight teeth at a Beverly Hills dental office in Dec. 2018 — when he was in fact playing basketball in Taiwan at that time. Others submitted false root canal paperwork as well, she added.
Former NBA basketball player Sebastian Telfair, right, departs Manhattan Federal Court, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, in New York. Federal authorities say 18 former NBA players, including Telfair, have been charged with allegedly pocketing $2.5 million illegally by defrauding the league's health and welfare benefit plan.
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