According to ESPN, the former National Basketball Players Association vice president and current assistant coach for the Utah Jazz Keyon Dooling has been arrested in a fraud case. The report says Keyon was arrested on Wednesday “and added to a criminal case in which 18 former NBA players were charged with illegally pocketing millions of dollars by defrauding the league’s health and welfare benefit plan.”
The rewritten indictment added Dooling to the case first brought in October, when federal officials said a number of former NBA players combined to collect about $2.5 million from the benefit plan.
Dooling, who was a union officer for eight years and eventually became its first vice president, was among three individuals added to the indictment Wednesday. He spent parts of 13 seasons in the NBA as a member of seven different teams.
The Jazz said Dooling made the club aware of the indictment Wednesday morning, and he was placed on paid administrative leave by the team.
“It is a case concerning his time at the National Basketball Players Association, prior to him joining our organization,” the Jazz said in a statement. “… Due to the ongoing legal process, we will refrain from further comment.”
Also added to the indictment were a doctor and a dentist who officials said were medical providers who facilitated the scheme. Dooling, officials said, “allegedly engaged in the scheme and recruited other co-conspirators to join the scheme.”
Dooling and others who were arrested have been charged with health care fraud and wire conspiracy “for a fraud that authorities say spanned from at least 2017 to 2020.”
Here is how much Keyon Dooling and others pocketed from the fraud.
In October, a prosecutor said each defendant made false claims that ranged from $65,000 to $420,000.
The updated indictment Wednesday said Dooling pocketed about $350,000 of plan proceeds illegally. In all, it said about $5 million in false claims were submitted, though claimants did not receive as much in proceeds.
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