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  1. March 07, 2023

    Ex-Pistons Guard Is Latest Guilty Plea In NBA Fraud Case

    Former Detroit Pistons point guard Will Bynum is the latest former NBA player to indicate he will plead guilty to charges that he submitted fraudulent invoices to the league's health care plan for medical work that was not performed.

  2. February 27, 2023

    Ex-Trail Blazer Miles Latest To Take Plea In NBA Fraud Case

    Former Los Angeles Clippers and Portland Trail Blazers forward Darius Miles is set to be the latest defendant to plead guilty in a case alleging 18 former NBA players, a few of their spouses and three doctors conspired to defraud the league's health care plan.

  3. February 24, 2023

    Ex-Trail Blazer Latest To Plan Guilty Plea In $5M NBA Fraud

    Former NBA player Sebastian Telfair told a Manhattan federal judge Thursday he intends to plead guilty in pro basketball's $5 million benefits scam, after prosecutors charged him with taking $358,000 in improper reimbursements for medical and dental care.

  4. February 17, 2023

    Ex-NBA Player Gets Prison For Fraud While 2nd Gets Warning

    A Manhattan federal judge on Friday sentenced NBA veteran Keyon Dooling to two and a half years in prison for helping orchestrate pro basketball's $5 million benefits scam and then sharply warned another charged former player, Sebastian Telfair, not to violate his bail.

  5. February 10, 2023

    Latest Ex-NBA Player In Heath Fraud Scheme Gets 2 Years

    Former NBA player Alan Anderson on Friday was sentenced to two years in prison over his role in a wide-ranging scheme among retired players to submit $5 million worth of fake medical and dental claims to the league's supplemental heath care plan.

  6. February 07, 2023

    LA Chiropractor Gets 2½ Years For NBA Health Plan Fraud

    A once-prominent Los Angeles-based chiropractor who catered to high-end athletes was sentenced Tuesday to two and a half years in prison, following his admission to churning out $1.3 million worth of fake invoices for retired NBA players that were used to defraud the league's health care plan.

  7. February 06, 2023

    Feds Want 2 Ex-NBA Players Imprisoned In Health Fraud Scam

    Prosecutors asked a Manhattan federal judge to sentence two former NBA players caught up in a scheme to defraud the league's health care plan to prison time, saying they were "among the more culpable" of the two dozen defendants in the case.

  8. January 30, 2023

    Ex-Celtics Guard Avoids Prison In Health Plan Fraud Case

    A former NBA journeyman guard received a time-served sentence Monday after he pled guilty in federal court in Manhattan to participating in a scheme to submit false invoices to the league's health care plan for medical work that was never performed.

  9. January 17, 2023

    Ex-NBA Guard's Health Plan 'Deceit' Merits Prison, Feds Say

    Prosecutors told a Manhattan federal judge that a former NBA guard who participated in a widespread scheme to defraud the league's health care plan through fake medical invoices should be sentenced to prison time.

  10. January 13, 2023

    Jailed Ex-NBA Player Disavows Tie To Antigovernment Group

    Former NBA player Alan Anderson on Friday renounced ties to a group whose adherents deny being subject to federal law, as he awaits sentencing from jail for filing a false $121,000 invoice in the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's crackdown on health benefits fraud.