https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2019/12/12/clinton-portis-among-former-nfl-players-charged-with-defrauding-health-care-program/

Dec. 12, 2019 at 10:39 a.m. EST

This story will be updated.

The Justice Department charged 10 former NFL players, including a group of former Washington Redskins that includes running back Clinton Portis and cornerback Carlos Rogers, with defrauding a health care program for retired players of nearly $4 million, according to court documents. The Department also said it intends to file charges against two other players as well.

After an FBI investigation, the Justice Department filed charges Wednesday morning in the Eastern District of Kentucky against Robert McCune, John Eubanks, Tamarick Vanover, Ceandris Brown, James Butler, Frederick Bennett, Correll Buckhalter, Etric Pruitt, Portis and Rogers.

The government also intends to charge former NFL wide receivers Joe Horn and Reche Caldwell with conspiracy to commit health care fraud.

The players allegedly submitted false claims to the Gene Upshaw NFL Player Health Reimbursement Account Plan for reimbursement for medical equipment — such as hyperbaric chambers, cryotherapy machines and ultrasound machines — costing between $40,000 and $50,000. The players charged recruited others into their scheme by offering to submit false claims in exchange for “kickbacks” and bribes that ranged up $10,000, according to the indictments. The players fabricated documents, including invoices and prescriptions, to execute the plan, according to the indictments.

The players filed $3.9 million in false claims, and between June 2017 and December 2018, the health plan paid them more than $3.4 million on those claims, according to the court documents.

“The expensive medical equipment described in the Reimbursement Request Forms that the Defendants submitted or caused to be submitted to the Plan were never purchased or received from the Participant, and the invoices from medical equipment companies, letters from health care providers, and prescriptions from health care providers accompanying the Reimbursement Request Forms were all fabricated,” the indictment reads.

A tweet about how the scheme works:
https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1205146116007890944

In a statement, assistant attorney general Brian Benczkowski said, “Ten former NFL players allegedly committed a brazen, multimillion dollar fraud on a health care plan meant to help their former teammates and other retired players pay legitimate, out-of-pocket medical expenses. Today’s indictments underscore that whoever you are, if you loot health care programs to line your own pockets, you will be held accountable by the Department of Justice.”

if it is, really stupid thing to do

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

https://i.imgur.com/YKXFCEv.jpg

This is no different than rich people illegally getting backs through pyramid, charity and business schemes.Or athletes being drug dealers even though they are making millions of dollars. Same reason why traders commit securities fraud.

Greed and the lure and mirage of easy money.

And I wouldn't be surprised if most of the other guys in this are broke too.

Portis, for his part, says he got swindled by his business manager and was very close to running up on him about it. He says he was literally sitting in his car with a gun and it took all his willpower to not go into the manager's office.

He's got a little gig doing sideline reporting for the Skins now but it can't be anywhere close to the kind of money he was making during his playing career.

So, for him (and I'd suspect for some of the other players), it was probably just the lure of easy, fast money that got them. Plus maybe a little bitterness from being physical used up by the sport and maybe not having anything to show for it anymore.

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these fools probably looked up the most expensive equipment and made claims based on that 😞

LoL.

$3.9 million in the grand scheme here isn't that much.


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Especially for cats that are probably constantly at the doctor or in need of some medical device/assitance.
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"To Each His Reach"

but.....

Fuck aliens.

https://www.propublica.org/article/health-insurers-make-it-easy-for-scammers-to-steal-millions-who-pays-you