{"id":1990470,"date":"2023-08-04T01:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T05:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-first-round-nba-draft-pick-is-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-in-4-million-health-care-fraud\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T01:23:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T05:23:24","slug":"former-first-round-nba-draft-pick-is-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-in-4-million-health-care-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-first-round-nba-draft-pick-is-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-in-4-million-health-care-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NBA Draft Pick Gets 10-Year Prison Term for $4M Health Care Fraud."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-first-round-nba-draft-pick-is-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-in-4-million-health-care-fraud%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1990470&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former\u2062 NBA Player Sentenced to 10 Years\u2064 in Prison\u2063 for Health\u200b Care Fraud<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-reveals-his-supreme-court-picks\/\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy shares his top Supreme Court choices.\">federal \u2063judge<\/a> in\u2063 New York handed down a 10-year\u200d prison sentence to Terrence Williams, a former first-round NBA \u200cdraft pick, on Thursday. The judge stated that Williams had utilized his \u2064exceptional people skills to persuade\u200c others to participate in his\u2064 $5 million health care fraud scheme, which he resorted\u2062 to after\u200c squandering a significant portion of his earnings from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/museum-dedicated-to-lebron-james-opens-in-akron-in-2023\/\" title=\"Museum Dedicated to LeBron James Opens in Akron in 2023\">professional basketball career<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old Seattle resident was also ordered to forfeit over $650,000\u200c and pay $2.5 million in restitution to the NBA&#8217;s Health and Welfare Benefit program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former NBA draft pick, Terrence Williams, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a $5 million health care fraud. The judge stated that Williams had wasted his substantial earnings from his professional career and used his people skills to convince others to participate. 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