Ten former pro football players have been charged with committing a nationwide fraud on a health care benefit program for retired NFL players.
Ten former National Football League (NFL) players, including two from Texas, have been charged in the U.S. District Court for thetern District of Kentucky in two separate indictments for their alleged roles in what prosecutors asserted was a nationwide fraud on a health care benefit program for retired NFL players.
According to prosecutors, the alleged fraud targeted the Gene Upshaw NFL Player Health Reimbursement Account Plan, which was established pursuant to the 2006 collective bargaining agreement and which provided for tax-free reimbursement of out-of-pocket medical care expenses that were not covered by insurance and that were incurred by former players, their wives, and their dependents – up to a maximum of $350,000 per player.
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