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18 former NBA players charged with defrauding NBA's health and welfare benefit plan
ABC News ^ | 07 October 2021

Posted on 10/07/2021 8:13:22 PM PDT by zeestephen

They allegedly submitted false or fraudulent claims totaling nearly $4 million, from which the ex-players took in about $2.5 million...The fraudulent invoices were created by a chiropractic office in Encino, California, two dentist offices in Beverly Hills and a wellness office in Washington state. The indictment named none of the offices allegedly involved and they were not charged.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 3; crime; didyousearch; fraud; nba; sports
From ABC News:

"In December 2018, Smith, a former Chicago Bulls forward, sent an invoice to the NBA Health and Welfare Benefit plan claiming reimbursement for a $48,000 root canal at a dentist's office in Beverly Hills. At the time, however, Smith was in Taiwan playing in a basketball game, according to an indictment returned in New York."

"Davis, Wroten and Allen all claimed to have had crowns on the same six teeth on the same day, May 11, 2016, the indictment said."

1 posted on 10/07/2021 8:13:22 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen

48K dollars for a root canal? Inflation is worse than I thought.


2 posted on 10/07/2021 8:17:48 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: zeestephen

Dumb...Shut up and play


3 posted on 10/07/2021 8:23:48 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

I got a basketball Jones.


4 posted on 10/07/2021 8:29:24 PM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (This is the sort of stuff up with which I shall not put!)
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"Davis, Wroten and Allen all claimed to have had crowns on the same six teeth on the same day, May 11, 2016, the indictment said."

If you are so lazy that you can’t be bothered to change the dates on the forms and switch the teeth around, you deserve to get caught.

Why is it that criminal minds are also lazy.

5 posted on 10/07/2021 8:29:37 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: zeestephen

“Davis, Wroten and Allen all claimed to have had crowns on the same six teeth on the same day, May 11, 2016, the indictment said.”

These guys are real brainiacs.


6 posted on 10/07/2021 8:31:18 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Leave. Us. Alone.)
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To: zeestephen

Making the big league wages but pulling two-bit fraud.

Some folks just can’t not commit crimes.


7 posted on 10/07/2021 8:41:05 PM PDT by Bogey78O
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To: zeestephen

I haven’t looked. Is it them again?


8 posted on 10/07/2021 11:36:18 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Proudly posting comments without reading the articles since 2002.)
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To: zeestephen

Sure is an unspectacular list of offenders

No wonder the Temptation to cheat

It was probably a trait carried over from their high school and college years at least those who bothered even go to college


9 posted on 10/08/2021 1:18:23 AM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (#LeaveTheGOP. Pass it on Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law they understan)
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To: zeestephen

Another reason to take many, many professional athletes not vety seriously.


10 posted on 10/08/2021 2:53:58 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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NBA Health and Welfare Benefit plan claiming reimbursement for a $48,000 root canal

That's a darn good plan. My dental plan has an annual max payout of $1,200 as well as a 50% co-pay on crowns......

11 posted on 10/08/2021 3:09:05 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Without potatoes, life has no meaning......)
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This is a message to NBA vaccine refuseniks, isn’t it...


12 posted on 10/08/2021 3:15:44 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. Cm">)
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