Ex-NBA Player to Pay $320K In Restitution For Health-Care Fraud

Former NBA player Shannon Brown has consented to pay $320,000 in restitution for health-care fraud, according to a New York federal court order.

Brown, who played for the Los Angeles Lakers and eight other teams during his nine-year career, was a co-defendant in a criminal case alleging a widespread scheme to defraud the National Basketball Association’s health and welfare benefit plan from at least 2017 to about 2020. He pleaded guilty.

Ex-NBA player Terrence Williams, who also pleaded guilty, was the ringleader of the scheme, where he recruited more than a dozen players and supplied them with false invoices to ...