NEW YORK – More than a dozen former NBA players have been indicted in a New York federal court in a multi-million dollar case for allegedly defrauding the basketball league’s health insurance, according to court documents released Thursday.
The 18 former NBA players named in the indictment include Terrence Williams, the group’s alleged ringleader, Tony Allen, Shannon Brown, and Ronald Glen Davis, among others.
Allen’s wife, Desiree Allen, is the only woman named in the indictment.
According to a federal jury indictment, the defendants were part of a fraud scheme from 2017 to 2020 for making reimbursement claims to the NBA health insurance plan for medical and dental services they never received.
In some cases, the players who requested the bogus refunds were not even in the country when they said they received medical treatment. All allegedly issued false invoices saying that they had to pay for the “ghost procedures” on their own.
In total, the false claims total about $ 3.9 million, of which the defendants collected about $ 2.5 million in refunds.
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THE COMPLETE LIST OF FORMER ACCUSED PLAYERS
– Terrence Williams
– Alan Anderson
– Tony Allen
– Shannon Brown
– William Bynum
– Melvin Ely
– Christopher Douglas-Roberts
– Tony Wroten
– Milt Palacio
– Sebastian Telfair
– Antoine Wright
– Darius Miles
– Ruben Patterson
– Eddie Robinson
– Gregory Smith
– Glen Davis
– Jamario Moon
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