Follow usFormer NBA player Terrence Williams was sentenced on Thursday to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of leading a scheme involving at least 19 players to defraud a league health plan into paying millions of dollars for bogus medical procedures, federal prosecutors said.
Williams, 36, who played for the New Jersey Nets and three other teams from 2009 to 2013, pleaded guilty last August to conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud as well as aggravated identity theft.
U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan federal court also sentenced him to pay $2.5 million in restitution to the NBA Players’ Health and Welfare Benefit Plan, and forfeit $653,673, in accordance with his plea agreement.
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