Big Baby was a big cheater, feds charge

Ronald Glen "Big Baby" Davis, who played connected the past Celtics title team, successful 2008, was among 18 erstwhile NBA players indicted connected charges they defrauded the league's wellness benefits plan, which covers some existent players and retirees similar him.

Davis and the others allegedly received a full of $2.5 cardinal successful payments connected bogus wellness claims to the program betwixt 2017 and 2020, according to the indictment, unsealed contiguous successful national tribunal successful Manhattan, NBC News archetypal reported. The program covers aesculapian expenses not different covered by the erstwhile players' regular wellness insurance.

The indictment alleges that Big Baby submitted a $27,000 assertion for crowns connected 8 teeth that helium allegedly had enactment successful connected Oct. 2, 2018, astatine a Beverly Hills dentist. Only problem: Davis was not successful Beverly Hills past - the feds person hose records showing helium flew from Las Vegas to Paris that day, and that they person telephone GPS records showing that earlier helium arrived successful Las Vegas for his flight, he'd been successful Utah.

Former Nets subordinate Terrance Williams is charged with recruiting the others into a strategy successful which helium supplied them with fake aesculapian invoices to taxable to the program - allegedly from a chiropractor and dentist successful California and a aesculapian signifier successful Washington authorities specializing successful "sexual health, anti-aging and wide good being," according to the indictment.

The players allegedly paid Williams immoderate $230,000 successful kickbacks connected their palmy claims - the feds complaint that the ringing actualy submitted person to $4 cardinal successful bills, but not each were paid.

Davis was fixed fake chiropractic bills betwixt 2017 and 2019, according to the indictment, which adds that 1 of the ringing members got Davis a fake "letter of aesculapian necessity" from 1 doc to spell with his fake bills successful 2019.

Innocent, etc.