Posted by on December 12, 2019 11:47 am
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A federal grand jury charged 10 former National Football League players—including former Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis—with scamming the league’s health-care benefit plan for retirees out of $3.4 million.

The former professional football players have been charged in an indictment filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky with wire fraud and health-care fraud for allegedly submitting “false and fraudulent claims for reimbursement for expensive medical equipment” that they never purchased. 

Prosecutors allege the 10 men made over $3.9 million in false and fraudulent claims, with the Gene Upshaw NFL Player Health Reimbursement Account Plan paying out over $3.4 million on those claims.

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