November 02, 2023
A former NBA player testifying for the government told a Manhattan federal jury that ex-Boston Celtic Glen "Big Baby" Davis was part of a group of retired basketball pros with whom he conspired to submit fraudulent invoices to the league's health care plan.
November 01, 2023
Prosecutors told a Manhattan federal jury at the start of trial Wednesday that two former NBA journeymen conspired with a fellow former basketball pro to deliberately and maliciously bilk money from the league's health care plan, seeking to parry their defense that they never had fraudulent intent.
October 27, 2023
The two lone holdouts in a once-sprawling case alleging that former NBA players used fraudulent invoices to defraud the league's health care plan will argue they didn't intend to break the law, a classic white collar defense their attorneys can use to chip away at the extensive paper trail at prosecutors' disposal.
October 23, 2023
A New York federal judge refused Monday to push back a trial in the federal government's lawsuit accusing a former National Basketball Association player of scheming to defraud the league's health care plan, despite the government's last-minute evidence disclosures.
October 17, 2023
The final two ex-NBA players set to go to trial next month on charges they schemed to defraud the league's health care plan shouldn't be allowed to argue that they were coerced into the scheme by co-conspirators, prosecutors said.
October 13, 2023
Prosecutors asked a Manhattan federal judge to sentence a dentist to at least 33 months in prison for providing fake invoices to a group of ex-NBA players to be submitted to the league's health care plan, saying the crime was motivated by "sheer greed."
October 11, 2023
Prosecutors asked a New York federal judge to sentence a former NBA player caught up in a once-sprawling case to defraud the league's health care system to less than 21 months in prison, while the defense requested a time-served sentence like most of the other defendants so far.
September 27, 2023
A Seattle doctor who helped carry out a $5 million health care fraud scheme that included more than a dozen NBA players entered a guilty plea in Manhattan federal court Tuesday.
September 22, 2023
A Seattle physician indicated to a Manhattan federal judge Friday that he will plead guilty in the $5 million NBA benefits scam, a move that would leave just two out of 24 named defendants set to go to trial in November.
September 15, 2023
A New York federal judge on Friday blocked former NBA star Glen "Big Baby" Davis' shot at introducing expert testimony on his mental capacity and rejected a doctor's attempt to sever his case from two ex-NBA players' ahead of their trial on charges they stole millions from the league's health plan.