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Ex-NBA Player Telfair Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud Scheme

  • Prosecutors have charged two dozen people in billing scandal
  • Former players Keyon Dooling, Alan Anderson pleaded guilty

Former NBA player Sebastian Telfair.   

Photographer: Doug Pensinger/Getty Images 

Former National Basketball Association player Sebastian Telfair pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in a plan to defraud the league’s health care plan.

Telfair, 37, who played for teams including the Boston Celtics and Phoenix Suns, joins a growing list of ex-NBA players who’ve admitted their role in a sprawling scheme to submit false claims for medical and dental expenses.