Encino chiropractor who boasted of his celebrity clientele is sentenced to prison for scheme to defraud NBA player’s healthcare fund.The scheme stretched from 2017 into at least 2021, prosecutors said, with Williams and the others submitting fraudulent claims for dental and chiropractic work to the plan, which reimburses current and former players for expenses not covered by regular insurance.
In 2017, Williams, the 11th pick in the 2009 NBA draft, submitted a false $19,000 invoice from the office of Encino-based chiropractor-to-the-stars Patrick Khaziran.He and Dooling then recruited other players to participate, with physicians such as Khaziran providing false documentation of treatments that never occurred and charging them to credit cards linked to the health plan.
Williams and the physicians received kickback payments from the fraudulent claims the other participants submitted, prosecutors said. In one instance, Williams impersonated a health plan employee to threaten a dentist involved in the scheme, prosecutors said. Williams, as the employee, demanded a “fine” from the dentist. If the “fine” was not paid, Williams said, the dentist would be turned in to the authorities for submitting fraudulent invoices.After Williams was arrested and charged in 2022, he sent a witness texts with expletives for “talking way [too] f— much.”
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