18 former NBA players have been arrested, according to NBC’s Tom Winter.
Winter reports that the former players where arrested for defrauding the league’s “Health and Welfare Benefit Plan out of approximately $4,000,000.”
The players that have been charged, they face a count of conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud. Some of the former players include Shannon Brown, Terrence Williams, Glen Davis, Alan Anderson and more.
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BREAKING: 18 former NBA players have been arrested and charged federally for defrauding the NBA’s Health and Welfare Benefit Plan out of approximately $4,000,000, law enforcement officials say.
Reported by @jonathan4ny
and me.— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) October 7, 2021
Some of the players charged include:
– Milt Palacio
– Sebastian Telfair
– Antoine Wright
– Darius Miles
– Ruben Patterson
– Eddie Robinson
– Gregory Smith
– Glen Davis
– Jamario Moon(1/2)
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) October 7, 2021
More former players:
– Terrence Williams
– Alan Anderson
– Tony Allen
– Shannon Brown
– William Bynum
– Melvin Ely
– Christopher Douglas-Roberts
– Tony Wroten(2/2)
— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) October 7, 2021