Eighteen ex-NBA players charged over defrauding league’s health plan of $4m

• Players in indictment include Jamario Moon and Glen Davis
• Prosecutors allege men made false medical and dental claims

Eighteen former NBA players have been arrested on charges alleging they defrauded the league's health and welfare benefit plan out of about $4m, according to an indictment on Thursday.

According to the indictment, the former players engaged in a widespread scheme to defraud the plan by submitting false and fraudulent claims to get reimbursed for medical and dental expenses that were never actually incurred. The 18 players were among 19 people charged in the indictment. It said that the scheme was carried out from at least 2017 to 2020, when the plan received false claims totaling about $3.9m. Of that, the defendants received about $2.5m in fraudulent proceeds.