Steele davis basketball fraud
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2 Former Michigan State Stars and 1 Former Piston Arrested In Massive NBA Fraud Case
18 former NBA players were arrested today and charged with committing fraud against the league for almost $4 Million.
The news broke today detailing the scam, and the players that were involved. Federal charges are being brought down on 18 former NBA players, including three with Michigan ties. Former Michigan State stars Alan Anderson, and Shannon Brown were named along with former Piston, Will Bynum. They allegedly took part in the scam that was created by Terrance Williams. Authorities listed Williams as the ringleader of the scam.
So what exactly did they do?
According to ESPN, the plan was centered around the NBA's Health and Welfare benefit plan. The short version is that the players would claim to have some kind of medical service done, and pocket the money provided by the league.
Investigators revealed that each of the players listed would then take some of the money and
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John Davis, former Mississippi welfare agency leader, pleads guilty, agrees to testify against others
JACKSON, Miss. -- A former director of Mississippi's welfare agency pleaded guilty Thursday to federal and state charges in a conspiracy to misspend tens of millions of dollars that were intended to help needy families in one of the poorest states in the United States -- part of the largest public corruption case in the state's history.
In federal court, John Davis pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy and one count of theft from programs receiving federal funds. In state court a short time later, he pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiracy and 13 counts of fraud against the government.
Davis, 54, was an influential figure in a scandal that has produced criminal charges against several people, including pro wrestler Ted DiBiase, known as the "million dollar man,' whose Christian ministry was ordered to repay more than $720,000 in misspent welfare
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Updated Feb. 22, 2019, with an indictment in the case.
A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Florida man who defrauded a Tarrant County school district out of almost $2 million bygd posing as an employee at a Fort Worth construction company, authorities say.
Donald Howard Conkright, 61, of Big Pine Key faces two counts of wire fraud. Conkright was arrested in månad in Florida before being extradited to Texas.
"Unfortunately, these sorts of spear-phishing email attacks have become all-too-common — and perpetrators are targeting not just individuals, but corporations and public institutions as well," U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox said in a news release. "We cannot allow bad actors to divert precious school resources away from educating our children."
In late October, Crowley ISD received an email purporting to be from Steele & Freeman Inc., a construction company building an elementary school and career technology center in the district, according to a federal criminal