2 former NBA players sentenced to 30, 24 months in jail for defrauding league's health and benefit plan

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Keyon Dooling and Alan Anderson were sentenced to 30 and 24 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in a scheme to defraud the NBA's Players' Health and Welfare Benefit Plan.

Eighteen players, in which NBA vet Terrence Williams was the ringleader, were involved in a scheme to defraud the NBA's health care plan out of more than $5 million.

Williams, Dooling and Anderson recruited other former NBA players to defraud the plan by submitting false invoices by medical officials.

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Keyon Dooling #55 of the Memphis Grizzlies dribbles the ball up the floor against the San Antonio Spurs in Game Four of the Western Conference Finals during the 2013 NBA Playoffs on May 27, 2013 at FedEx Forum in Memphis, Tennessee. (Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images)

Dooling, who participated in the scheme for around two years, was ordered to forfeit $449,250.50 and pay restitution of $547,495, while Anderson was ordered to forfeit $121,000 and pay restitution of $121,000, according to the United States Department of Justice. 

Both players also recruited several former players to join and "encouraged them to submit forged letters of medical necessity to substantiate those claims."

"These former players recruited others to take part in this widespread fraud scheme and went to great lengths to keep the scheme running smoothly, facilitating hundreds of thousands of dollars of fraudulent claims," U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said in a statement. "This Office will continue to aggressively prosecute those engaged in health care fraud schemes, no matter what their