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Former LSU and U-High Basketball Legend Glen Davis sentenced to 40 months in Prison
Posted on 5/9/24 at 1:32 pm
Posted on 5/9/24 at 1:32 pm
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Former NBA forward Glen "Big Baby" Davis was sentenced by a federal judge Thursday to 40 months in prison, plus three years' supervised release, for his Nov. 2023 conviction in an alleged scheme to defraud the league's health care benefits plan.
More than 20 people, including numerous former players such as Terrence Williams and Keyon Dooling, have been sentenced in the case for filing false medical claims with the NBA Players' Health and Benefit Welfare Plan.
ESPN
Posted on 5/9/24 at 1:34 pm to 225Tyga
Not Keyon Dooling!
Original Lob City Clips TYFYS
Original Lob City Clips TYFYS
Posted on 5/9/24 at 1:34 pm to 225Tyga
wasnt he caught up in a drug ring too or was that someone else?
yea looks like he was arrested for weed and avoided jail time. Could have sworn it was something with coke or heroin in the past though, some ring he was with but maybe that was someone else.
yea looks like he was arrested for weed and avoided jail time. Could have sworn it was something with coke or heroin in the past though, some ring he was with but maybe that was someone else.
This post was edited on 5/9/24 at 1:37 pm
Posted on 5/9/24 at 1:37 pm to 225Tyga
Just saw that. From Law 360:
Law360 (May 9, 2024, 2:25 PM EDT) -- Former Boston Celtics forward Glen "Big Baby" Davis was sentenced to 40 months in prison Thursday after being convicted for his role in a scheme to submit fraudulent invoices to an NBA healthcare plan.
During a hearing in Manhattan federal court, U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni said Davis, known for his role on the Celtics' 2008 championship team, was more culpable than many of the other defendants charged in the sprawling case.
Judge Caproni additionally ordered Davis to serve three years of supervised release and pay $80,000 in restitution jointly with his co-defendant Rashad Sanford, an Atlanta-area chiropractor who pled guilty to conspiring with Davis in a separate fake-invoice scheme.
Judge Caproni said she recognized that Davis had a very difficult childhood, citing his mother's drug dependency and a period during which Davis lived with a coach. The judge told Davis, "I feel bad for you" in regard to his NBA career that was cut short by an injury and said Davis, like many of the other 19 former players charged in the case, was financially irresponsible with the millions he made playing professional basketball.
But Judge Caproni said those circumstances did not let Davis off the hook.
"You say you don't deserve to be here. I disagree," she said.
"He knew he had been caught, and what did he do? He lied," Judge Caproni said.
Davis appeared visibly upset throughout the hearing and was asked more than once by his attorney to refrain from talking. After the hearing concluded, Davis sarcastically applauded the court staff as they exited the courtroom and told Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Finkel he had done a "great job."
Davis' attorney, Sabrina Shroff, declined to comment on the sentence.
Relatives, coaches, friends and the National Basketball Players Association's general counsel Ron Klempner wrote letters to the court in support of Davis' requested non-custodial sentence. Shroff argued that the letters showed that Davis is "slow on the uptake," a continuance of Davis' defense used at trial that he was taken advantage of by Williams.
Shroff said she had represented Davis longer than an ordinary attorney-client relationship would last, and in that time he had shown, at least to her, a difficulty with running his own life, at one point calling her late at night to ask her to lend him money to pay a phone bill.
Shroff said Davis' childhood was marred by adversity. Hs relatives described him as a child wandering the neighborhood in dirty clothes, looking hungry, the attorney said. Klempner, Shroff said, has said his interactions with Davis have been "vastly different" than those with other players.
In a tearful statement to the court prior to the sentence, Davis apologized to the judge for being before her and asked for her help.
"For five or six years I've been struggling because basketball was taken away from me," Davis said. "When I lost basketball, I lost myself."
Judge Caproni said she was not pleased with Davis' pre-trial behavior, noting that he'd traveled out of state without telling the probation department, provided an incomplete financial disclosure to the court and had tested positive for marijuana use "many times."
"You always had very dramatic facial reactions, I can see why you have a [Screen Actors Guild] card," Judge Caproni told Davis.
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Law360 (May 9, 2024, 2:25 PM EDT) -- Former Boston Celtics forward Glen "Big Baby" Davis was sentenced to 40 months in prison Thursday after being convicted for his role in a scheme to submit fraudulent invoices to an NBA healthcare plan.
During a hearing in Manhattan federal court, U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni said Davis, known for his role on the Celtics' 2008 championship team, was more culpable than many of the other defendants charged in the sprawling case.
Judge Caproni additionally ordered Davis to serve three years of supervised release and pay $80,000 in restitution jointly with his co-defendant Rashad Sanford, an Atlanta-area chiropractor who pled guilty to conspiring with Davis in a separate fake-invoice scheme.
Judge Caproni said she recognized that Davis had a very difficult childhood, citing his mother's drug dependency and a period during which Davis lived with a coach. The judge told Davis, "I feel bad for you" in regard to his NBA career that was cut short by an injury and said Davis, like many of the other 19 former players charged in the case, was financially irresponsible with the millions he made playing professional basketball.
But Judge Caproni said those circumstances did not let Davis off the hook.
"You say you don't deserve to be here. I disagree," she said.
"He knew he had been caught, and what did he do? He lied," Judge Caproni said.
Davis appeared visibly upset throughout the hearing and was asked more than once by his attorney to refrain from talking. After the hearing concluded, Davis sarcastically applauded the court staff as they exited the courtroom and told Assistant U.S. Attorney Ryan Finkel he had done a "great job."
Davis' attorney, Sabrina Shroff, declined to comment on the sentence.
Relatives, coaches, friends and the National Basketball Players Association's general counsel Ron Klempner wrote letters to the court in support of Davis' requested non-custodial sentence. Shroff argued that the letters showed that Davis is "slow on the uptake," a continuance of Davis' defense used at trial that he was taken advantage of by Williams.
Shroff said she had represented Davis longer than an ordinary attorney-client relationship would last, and in that time he had shown, at least to her, a difficulty with running his own life, at one point calling her late at night to ask her to lend him money to pay a phone bill.
Shroff said Davis' childhood was marred by adversity. Hs relatives described him as a child wandering the neighborhood in dirty clothes, looking hungry, the attorney said. Klempner, Shroff said, has said his interactions with Davis have been "vastly different" than those with other players.
In a tearful statement to the court prior to the sentence, Davis apologized to the judge for being before her and asked for her help.
"For five or six years I've been struggling because basketball was taken away from me," Davis said. "When I lost basketball, I lost myself."
Judge Caproni said she was not pleased with Davis' pre-trial behavior, noting that he'd traveled out of state without telling the probation department, provided an incomplete financial disclosure to the court and had tested positive for marijuana use "many times."
"You always had very dramatic facial reactions, I can see why you have a [Screen Actors Guild] card," Judge Caproni told Davis.
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This post was edited on 5/9/24 at 1:41 pm
Posted on 5/9/24 at 1:38 pm to 225Tyga
Should get at least 2 months credit for giving us one of the better gif of all time.
Posted on 5/9/24 at 1:41 pm to 225Tyga
He is a literal crack baby, so I'd say he has overachieved in life.
Posted on 5/9/24 at 1:43 pm to 225Tyga
Damn. He was the guy who got me into LSU basketball as a kid
Posted on 5/9/24 at 1:51 pm to 225Tyga
Damn, guess he'll have to film gay porn in prison
Posted on 5/9/24 at 2:10 pm to 225Tyga
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40 months in prison
Well at least he still gets free healthcare!
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