According to court prosecutors in Manhattan federal court, a total of 18 former NBA players have been charged with fraud. Per court documents, 16 of the 19 NBA-player defendants were arrested on Thursday morning. Of the eighteen players charged, Terrence Williams, Glen “Big Baby” Davis, Shannon Brown, Sebastian Telfair and Darius Miller were among the listed accomplices.
To add to the list, Jamario Moon, Melvin Ely, Ruben Patterson, Tony Wroten and Tony Allen participated as well. The players were each found to have abused and defrauded the league’s Health and Welfare Benefit Plan. U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss stated, “The defendants’ playbook involved fraud and deception.”
