EP 37--18 Former NBA Players Charged In $4M Health Care Fraud Scheme by Ball Dnt Lie Podcast published on 2021-10-10T06:39:41Z Eighteen former NBA players were charged Thursday with pocketing about $2.5 million illegally by defrauding the league's health and welfare benefit plan in a scam that authorities said involved claiming fictitious medical and dental expenses. According to an indictment returned in Manhattan federal court, the former players teamed up to defraud the supplemental coverage plan by submitting fraudulent claims to get reimbursed for medical and dental procedures that never happened. Genre Sports