January 02, 2024
An Atlanta chiropractor pled guilty Tuesday to a charge of conspiracy to commit healthcare and wire fraud after prosecutors accused him of submitting fake invoices to the NBA health plan as part of a scheme involving former Celtics forward Glen "Big Baby" Davis.
December 21, 2023
Plenty of healthcare and life science litigation dominated headlines in 2023 — including a couple of opioid decisions that might change how settlements are doled out and how prosecutors charge doctors involved in pill mill schemes.
December 20, 2023
A Los Angeles dentist was sentenced Wednesday to three years in prison after pleading guilty to generating fake medical invoices for a group of former NBA players to be submitted to the league's healthcare plan.
November 20, 2023
A Manhattan federal judge on Monday allowed former Los Angeles Clippers forward Darius Miles to avoid prison for his relatively minor role in a sprawling conspiracy that sought to siphon $5 million out of the NBA's health benefit program.
November 15, 2023
A Manhattan federal jury on Wednesday found a former Boston Celtics player guilty of taking part in a scheme to defraud the NBA's health care plan using fake invoices, while convicting a second ex-basketball pro of one out of two charges.
November 14, 2023
A Manhattan federal jury on Tuesday began deliberating on charges that two former NBA players took part in a scheme to defraud the league's health care plan, after their attorneys hammered home their argument that the defendants lacked the intent to knowingly submit what the government says were fake invoices.
November 13, 2023
Prosecutors told a Manhattan federal jury on Monday that two former NBA players participated in "plain-vanilla fraud" by submitting fake invoices to the league's health care plan at the instruction of a fellow ex-basketball pro while trying to cover their tracks with lies.
November 09, 2023
A former Detroit Pistons point guard denied submitting invoices he knew were false Thursday while on the stand at his health care fraud trial, telling a Manhattan federal jury he didn't recall whether it was he who even filled out the forms.
November 08, 2023
A former Detroit Pistons point guard took the stand in his own defense on health care fraud charges Wednesday, telling a Manhattan federal jury that another former NBA player falsely claimed to be working for the players' union and persuaded him to submit false invoices to the league's benefits plan.
November 06, 2023
A Manhattan federal jury on Monday heard phone recordings in which a former Detroit Pistons point guard talked with the NBA's health care administrator about receiving a $180,000 payment that prosecutors claim was obtained using falsified invoices.