Former NBA player Darius Miles pleaded guilty Monday to one count of conspiracy to commit healthcare and wire fraud for his role in a healthcare fraud scheme that targeted the league’s benefits program.
Miles entered the guilty plea at a brief hearing before Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan Federal Court.
The former Los Angeles Clipper, who was selected third in the 2000 NBA draft, was charged by federal prosecutors in 2022 alongside a doctor, a dentist and other former NBA players for the health care scheme.
Terrence Williams, a former NBA player who pleaded guilty in August 2022, orchestrated the scheme to submit fraudulent healthcare claims for reimbursement from the NBA’s players’ health and welfare benefit plan, prosecutors charged.
More than a dozen people, including former players, family members, a doctor and a dentist engaged in the scheme that siphoned off $5 million from the benefit plan which provides care to current and retired players, federal authorities charged.
Former New York City high school basketball standout Sebastian Telfair was also charged and pleaded guilty for his role in the scheme in March.
Source: Ex-NBA Player Darius Miles Pleads Guilty in Sprawling Healthcare Fraud Scheme / The Messenger News