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.
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.
NEW YORK (AP) 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