Eighteen ex-NBA players -- including Glen 'Big Baby' Davis and Sebastian Telfair -- have been charged with fraud.
, on Thursday ... accusing the men of ripping off the NBA Players' Health and Welfare Benefit Plan.
The scheme was not terribly complicated, according to the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Of NY, which is prosecuting the case. The ex-basketball players allegedly submitted"false and fraudulent claims for reimbursement" to the plan --- which has been set up by the NBA to help current and former players pay medical bills -- and then were wrongly reimbursed.
Officials say it all started in 2017, when the players would ask the plan for money to pay for medical care they didn't actually receive. The feds say the men submitted fraudulent claims that totaled approximately $3.9 million ... and they received approximately $2.5 million"in fraudulent proceeds" from the scheme.
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