FrozenLVFan
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Posted: 10/07/21 1:54 pm ::: NBA Players commit Medical Fraud |
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Eighteen former NBA players were charged Thursday with pocketing about $2.5 million illegally by defrauding the league's health and welfare benefit plan in a scam that authorities said involved claiming fictitious medical and dental expenses.
"The defendants' playbook involved fraud and deception," U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss said at a news conference after FBI agents across the country arrested 15 former players and one of their wives after an alleged three-year conspiracy that authorities say started in 2017.
According to an indictment returned in Manhattan federal court, the former players teamed up to defraud the supplemental coverage plan by submitting fraudulent claims to get reimbursed for medical and dental procedures that never happened.
Strauss said prosecutors have travel records, email and GPS data that prove the former players were sometimes far from the medical and dental offices at the times when they were supposedly getting treated. In one instance, she said, a former player was playing basketball in Taiwan when he was supposedly getting $48,000 worth of root canals and crowns on eight teeth at a Beverly Hills, California, dental office in December 2018. |
https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/32354861/former-nba-players-charged-4m-health-care-fraud-scheme
Disgraceful. I wonder if they'll get any jail time for this. The article didn't mention the involved dentist, chiropractor, and wellness office, but it's ESPN.
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