The former basketball player was one of several charged with defrauding a healthcare plan provided by the NBA.
last year to conspiracy and aggravated identity theft, was said by prosecutors to have made at least $300,000 in kickbacks from other players.
Williams, sentenced in the Southern District of New York, will pay $2.5 million in restitution to the NBA Players' Health and Welfare Benefit Plan and forfeit $654,000 as part of his plea deal. Throughout the scheme’s approximate four-year run from 2017 to 2021, the former New Jersey Nets player impersonated health plan employees and recruited legitimate healthcare providers and NBA players to “expand his criminal conspiracy and maximize his ill-gotten gains,” according toProsecutors found Williams threatened one of the healthcare providers who created fraudulent invoices for him and threatened a witness after he was charged and arrested last year, telling them they were “talking way...
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