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.
Former Philadelphia 76ers guard Tony Wroten is among 18 former NBA players charged in an alleged conspiracy to defraud the league's Health and Welfare Benefit Plan. Federal prosecutors allege Wroten, a key figure in the Sixers' Process-era years, submitted fake invoices for dental work that he never received. Terrence Williams, Glen "Big Baby" Davis, Sebastian Telfair and Darius Miles are among the most notable former players facing charges.
More than a dozen former NBA players have been charged in Manhattan federal court in an alleged health insurance fraud scheme to rip off the NBA-related health.