Former NBA Players Keyon Dooling And Alan Anderson Sentenced To 30 And 24 Months In Prison For Defrauding NBA Players’ Health And Welfare Benefit Plan | USAO-SDNY

Damian Williams, the United States Legal professional for the Southern District of New York, declared today that KEYON DOOLING and ALAN ANDERSON have been sentenced to 30 months and 24 months in jail, respectively, for their roles in a scheme to defraud the Countrywide Basketball Affiliation (“NBA”) Players’ Wellness and Welfare Reward Prepare (the “Plan”).  U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni sentenced DOOLING today and previously sentenced ANDERSON on February 10, 2023. 

U.S. Lawyer Damian Williams explained: “These previous players recruited some others to acquire component in this prevalent fraud scheme and went to great lengths to hold the plan managing efficiently, facilitating hundreds of 1000’s of dollars of fraudulent claims.  This Place of work will continue to aggressively prosecute individuals engaged in wellness treatment fraud schemes, no subject what their profession.  These considering distributing wrong statements to well being treatment plans need to figure out that they will be subject to critical penalties.”   

According to the Indictments, public court docket filings, and statements created in court docket:

The Program is a wellbeing care program providing gains to eligible lively and previous players of the NBA.  DOOLING and ANDERSON each performed in the NBA and had been suitable to receive reimbursements from the Prepare for legitimate, qualifying health care bills.

Co-defendant TERRENCE WILLIAMS orchestrated the scheme to defraud the Strategy.[1]  DOOLING and ANDERSON also occupied managerial roles in the plan.

WILLIAMS, DOOLING, and ANDERSON recruited other previous NBA players to defraud the Approach, including by giving to supply them with bogus invoices to aid their fraudulent promises.

WILLIAMS supplied the other previous NBA players bogus invoices from a individual chiropractic place of work in California, operate by co-defendant PATRICK KHAZIRAN,[2] which had been established by folks performing with WILLIAMS.  In addition, WILLIAMS obtained fraudulent invoices from a dentist affiliated with dental workplaces in Beverly Hills, California, run by co-defendant AAMIR WAHAB, and from a physician at a wellness business office in Washington Point out.  The fraudulent invoices purported to doc that ANDERSON, other co-defendants, and, in some scenarios, users of their families, had been recipients of costly health-related and dental expert services, but the defendants experienced not obtained the professional medical or dental providers explained in the invoices WILLIAMS provided them.  In a lot of circumstances, the defendants were not even positioned in the vicinity of the company suppliers on the dates the invoices stated they acquired health-related or dental providers.  In specific, GPS location information and documentary evidence, these kinds of as flight information, show that the defendants had been in areas other than the vicinity of the healthcare or dental workplaces falsely claimed as the suppliers of products and services.

DOOLING participated in the plan from at the very least in or about 2017 as a result of in or about 2019.  DOOLING traded on his standing amid recent and former NBA players to refer other previous NBA players to co-defendant KHAZIRAN and WAHAB.  DOOLING also recruited and tried to recruit additional Approach-contributors and healthcare pros into the fraud plan.  DOOLING himself submitted fraudulent invoices to the Prepare, relating to solutions purportedly carried out by co-defendants KHAZIRAN and WAHAB.  DOOLING received roughly $363,000 in fraudulent reimbursements, and he is responsible for facilitating the fraudulent claims filed by other defendants, who acquired approximately $194,295 in fraudulent proceeds from the prepare.

ANDERSON also recruited various previous NBA gamers to the fraud scheme.  When co-conspirators encountered issues in acquiring reimbursements for fraudulent claims, ANDERSON encouraged them to submit forged letters of health-related requirement to substantiate those promises.  When these letters were being unsuccessful, ANDERSON organized for the co-conspirators to visit a Las Vegas health care provider, right after-hrs, to more try to justify the fraudulent promises.  ANDERSON himself submitted around $121,000 in fraudulent claims to the Plan.  ANDERSON is also responsible for recruiting and facilitating the fraud of more defendants who sought close to $710,000 in fraudulent statements.

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In addition to their jail phrases, DOOLING, 42, of Orlando, Florida, was purchased to forfeit $449,250.50 and spend restitution of $547,495 and ANDERSON, 40, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was purchased to forfeit $121,000 and fork out restitution of $121,000.

Mr. Williams praised the remarkable investigative work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The prosecution of this case is currently being managed by the Office’s Sophisticated Frauds and Cybercrime Unit.  Assistant U.S. Attorneys Ryan B. Finkel and Daniel G. Nessim are in charge of the prosecution.