June 17, 2022
A former Chicago Bulls forward on Friday became the first NBA veteran in the Manhattan U.S. attorney's health plan fraud crackdown to plead out, telling a federal judge he conspired to falsely bill the league for chiropractic services.
June 09, 2022
Retired Boston Celtic Glen "Big Baby" Davis and the attorney representing him in the $4 million NBA health benefits fraud case are parting ways as the former center deals with repeated bail violations that threaten to send him to Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center.
June 07, 2022
Former NBA players Jamario Moon and Anthony Wroten are the second and third defendants to strike plea deals over an alleged $4 million scheme to defraud the league's health benefits plan, according to orders from a New York federal judge overseeing the sprawling case.
May 31, 2022
Former Chicago Bulls player Eddie Robinson is set to plead guilty to federal charges that he participated in a $4 million NBA health plan fraud — which would mark New York prosecutors' first plea in the case against 22 individuals.
May 24, 2022
A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday scolded retired Boston Celtics center Glen "Big Baby" Davis for repeatedly violating his bail conditions in the $4 million NBA health plan fraud case, threatening him with pretrial detention if he commits another "foul."
May 19, 2022
A Manhattan federal judge said Thursday she will review a bail package for retired Boston Celtics center Glen "Big Baby" Davis after he allegedly violated his conditions of release yet again in the NBA health plan fraud case.
May 09, 2022
A retired Boston Celtics player accused of masterminding a scheme to pilfer $4 million from the National Basketball Association's health plan was sent to Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center Friday after purportedly running afoul of bail conditions.
May 04, 2022
Manhattan federal prosecutors are reviewing the cellphone and email accounts of several retired NBA players in an expanding criminal case accusing them of scheming to pilfer $4 million from the league's health care system with phony medical claims.
March 09, 2022
Retired Boston Celtics center Glen "Big Baby" Davis violated his bail conditions in the $4 million NBA health plan fraud case to watch his former team face off against the Brooklyn Nets this past weekend, his lawyer acknowledged in a court filing Wednesday.
October 29, 2021
The 18 former NBA players accused in a $4 million scheme to bilk the league's health care system by filing false medical claims have all pled not guilty and are out on bail, court records show.