March 24, 2023
Federal prosecutors on Friday requested a sentence below the guidelines range of 18 to 24 months in prison for a former Los Angeles Lakers player convicted of defrauding the league's health benefits plan, noting that the player suffers from mental health issues and has also given back to the community.
March 17, 2023
A California dentist, pleading guilty in pro basketball's $5 million benefits scam, told a Manhattan federal judge Friday that he took kickbacks as former NBA players cashed $1.2 million worth of invoices he handed out despite doing no dental work.
March 15, 2023
Former NBA player Sebastian Telfair admitted to illegally siphoning $358,000 from pro basketball's benefits plan Wednesday during a hearing where he told a Manhattan federal judge that he regrets not getting stronger guidance from the league when it reviewed his health claims.
March 07, 2023
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.
February 27, 2023
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.
February 24, 2023
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.
February 17, 2023
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.
February 10, 2023
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.
February 07, 2023
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.
February 06, 2023
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.