18 Former N.B.A. Players Charged With Insurance Fraud

Federal prosecutors said Terrence Williams, who once played for the New Jersey Nets, had orchestrated a scheme that led to the filing of nearly $4 million in fraudulent medical claims.

Eighteen former National Basketball Association players have been indicted on charges they participated in a conspiracy to defraud an N.B.A. health care plan of nearly $4 million, the federal authorities said on Thursday.

The scheme lasted from at least 2017 through last year and involved the submission of fraudulent claims for reimbursement of medical and dental services that had not been actually carried out, according to a federal indictment unsealed in Manhattan.

For the most part, the 18 former players charged in the scheme played in the N.B.A. in the late 1990s and the 2000s.

Perhaps the most famous was Ronald Glen Davis, a fan favorite nicknamed ‘Big Baby,’ who was part of the Boston Celtics team that won the N.B.A. championship in 2008.