Glenn “Big Baby” Davis will be away for a while.
A former NBA player was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in prison in New York for his role in a scheme to defraud the league’s health and welfare benefit plan out of $5 million.
Davis was accused by prosecutors of charging $27,000 for a dental procedure in Beverly Hills, even though he was traveling between Las Vegas and Paris.
He is one of more than a dozen players charged with criminal conspiracy.
An October report from Manhattan federal prosecutors said the players, who earned a combined $360 million during their NBA careers, were accused of “false claims seeking reimbursement for medical and dental services that were not actually provided.” He is said to have filed a fraudulent claim. In 2021.
In August, former New Jersey Nets player Terrence Williams was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to orchestrating the scheme from 2017 to 2021.
Former Coney Island high school star and former Los Angeles Clipper Sebastian Telfair avoided prison for role in fraud However, he was given a three-year suspended sentence and ordered to forfeit more than $350,000 in January.
Former NBA player Will Bynum was sentenced to 18 months in prison in April and was forced to pay $183,000 in restitution.
“While many of the more than 20 defendants convicted in this case were prominent NBA stars, their actions otherwise defrauded the NBA’s health insurance plan and cost the defendants $5 million. “It was a classic fraudulent scheme to obtain illegal profits,” the Manhattan newspaper reported. After Davis and Bynum were sentenced in November, their lawyer Damian Williams said in a statement:
“Today’s convictions illustrate that no one, despite their notoriety or success in sports or other fields, is immune from criminal prosecution when committing fraud.”
Davis played eight seasons in the NBA from 2007 to 2015, including stints with the Celtics, Magic and Clippers.
He came off Boston’s bench in the 2008 NBA title game.
