18 former NBA players charged

[cliftonparksufan]

for defrauding the NBA Health and Welfare system.

 

[Frozen]

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Average of $222,222 per player so not exactly pocket change. Let's see what carrot the Feds will dangle in front of them. Should be interesting.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Here is a good breakdown. News conference scheduled for this afternoon.

18 ex-NBA players charged in $4M health care fraud scheme

NEW YORK (AP) — Eighteen former NBA players have been charged with defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan out of about $4 million, according to an indictment Thursday in New York. Federal prosecutors planned a news conference to describe the case that was brought in Manhattan...

apnews.com

 

[Eric15]

The NBA got suspicious when Glen Big Baby Davis submitted claims for being colicky.

 

[cliftonparksufan]

The NBA got suspicious when Glen Big Baby Davis submitted claims for being colicky.

Feds say the case is a slam dunk.

 

[721Comstock]

Feds say the case is a slam dunk.

 

[HoustonCuse]

Telfair and Wroten. Both guys I recall Syracuse being involved with but backing away as things got squirrelly. JB seems to have a sense for that type of stuff.

 

[tep624]

Some real Einsteins on that list. Maximum sentencing on 1 count of wire fraud is 20 years. I'd have to think everyone on that list is at least facing 5 years plus realistically if convicted. Dumb with a capital D.

 

[OttoinGrotto]

Weird story.

 

[chugg21]

Telfair and Wroten. Both guys I recall Syracuse being involved with but backing away as things got squirrelly. JB seems to have a sense for that type of stuff.

Think that's the point of sanctions. Works on most, unless your name rhymes with malipari.

 

[MattyIce44]

Many similarities to the case involving NFL players like Clinton Portis defrauding the NFL's healthcare plan

 

[cliftonparksufan]

The NBA got suspicious when Glen Big Baby Davis submitted claims for being colicky.

Don't minimize their stupidity. Greg Smith, one of the 18, filed a $50,000 dental claim and he got caught because he was playing overseas on the day the dental work supposedly got done. I guess he forget that box scores are published on the world wide web.

Ex-NBA player Greg Smith implicated himself in fraud scheme

Smith allegedly submitted a false claim for nearly $50,000 worth of dental work that he claimed he had in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Dec. 20, 2018. Investigators determined that Smith was in Taiwan that day.

www.yardbarker.com

 

[UnderHisOwnPower]

for defrauding the NBA Health and Welfare system.

All marginal careers. A couple Pitino prodigies in there, right?

 

[PauliePeppas]

All marginal careers. A couple Pitino prodigies in there, right?

Yup and Izzo

 

[cliftonparksufan]

Don't minimize their stupidity. Greg Smith, one of the 18, filed a $50,000 dental claim and he got caught because he was playing overseas on the day the dental work supposedly got done. I guess he forget that box scores are published on the world wide web.

Ex-NBA player Greg Smith implicated himself in fraud scheme

Smith allegedly submitted a false claim for nearly $50,000 worth of dental work that he claimed he had in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Dec. 20, 2018. Investigators determined that Smith was in Taiwan that day.

www.yardbarker.com

Here is more stupidity. Don't confuse these guys with Bill Bradley and Tom McMillian.

Details On The 18 Former NBA Players Arrested For Fraud Released And They Might Be The Dumbest Criminals Alive

We now have an idea of what happened with the 18 former NBA players who were arrested on Thursday morning for defrauding the NBA out of millions of

brobible.com

 

[MSOrange]

All marginal careers. A couple Pitino prodigies in there, right?

Maybe marginal but some still made enough made not to have to resort to this. Telfair has career earnings of $20 million, Glen Davis $34 million and Tony Allen $40 million and those are were just the 3 I checked because I know they did decent.

 

[Briancuse]

Feds say the case is a slam dunk.

Hopefully not a dunk attempted by one of our players.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Pigs get fat. Hogs get slaughtered.

 

[SWC75]

18 former NBA players charged in $4 million health care fraud scheme

None of our guys although as I recall we recruited Telfair.

 

[br801]

18 former NBA players charged in $4 million health care fraud scheme

None of our guys although as I recall we recruited Telfair.

The scheme was uncovered, in part, because of the sloppy work of the defendants, authorities said.

For example, Smith, who played for the Houston Rockets, submitted claims for IV sedation, a root canal and crowns that he is alleged to have received during a Dec. 20, 2018, dental procedure in Beverly Hills, California, prosecutors said.

"Travel records, e-mail and publicly available box scores showed that he was playing professional basketball in Taiwan that week and did not receive root canals in Beverly Hills as represented in the claim form he submitted," Strauss said.

At the time, Smith was in Taiwan's Super Basketball League, and he scored 11 points for Bank of Taiwan the next day in an 84-76 loss to Kaohsiung Jeoutai Technology.

And several players didn't bother comparing notes to see whether they were raising red flags by putting in for the exact same dental procedures on the same days, Strauss said.

For example, Davis, Allen and Wroten filed for root canals, all supposedly performed on the same six teeth on April 30, 2016, Strauss said. The trio also put in for payments for crowns done on the same six teeth on May 11, 2016, she said.

Wroten and Allen filed for root canals done on the same 13 teeth on Sept. 6, 2018, Strauss said.

 

[tep624]

Maybe marginal but some still made enough made not to have to resort to this. Telfair has career earnings of $20 million, Glen Davis $34 million and Tony Allen $40 million and those are were just the 3 I checked because I know they did decent.

I’m sure 90% of that money was gone before their career ended.

 

[jncuse]

Apparently as a group the 18 players made $340 million in the NBA.