Two former professional basketball players and a physician lost their appeals to undo convictions and sentences arising out of a years-long scheme to defraud the National Basketball Association Players’ Health and Welfare Benefit Plan.
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued summary orders rejecting their respective challenges Monday.
The scheme ensnared more than a dozen ex-players and involved submitting claims for services that were never rendered.
William Bynum, who played for the Detroit Pistons between 2008 and 2014, is serving an 18-month prison sentence for conspiracy to make false statements relating to health-care matters.
He challenged, among ...