Terrence Williams Led a Sprawling Scheme to Defraud the NBA’s Health and Welfare Benefit Plan Out of More Than $5 Million and, Following His Arrest, Threatened a Witness

Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that TERRENCE WILLIAMS pled guilty to conspiracy to commit health care and wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, in connection with a scheme to defraud the National Basketball Association (“NBA”) Players’ Health and Welfare Benefit Plan (the “Plan”). WILLIAMS pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni. Sentencing is scheduled for January 25, 2023.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said: “Williams led a scheme involving more than 18 former NBA players, a dentist, a doctor, and a chiropractor, to defraud the NBA Players’ Health and Welfare Benefit Plan of millions of dollars. Williams also impersonated others to help him take what was not his—money that belonged to the Plan. I thank our law enforcement partners in the FBI for their hard work investigating this pervasive scheme.”

According to the Indictment, public court filings, and statements made in court:

The Plan is a health care plan providing benefits to eligible active and former players of the NBA and their family members. From at least 2017 through at least 2021, WILLIAMS, and more than a dozen others, engaged in a widespread scheme to defraud the Plan by submitting and causing to be submitted fraudulent claims for reimbursement of...

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