Man Gets 12 Years in Prison in Insurance Scheme After Posing as Patients, Including NBA Player

Published on February 5, 2024

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y.—A medical biller has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison after being convicted in a massive insurance fraud scheme that involved posing as an NBA player and other patients to harangue the companies for payments that weren’t actually due, prosecutors said. U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert called Matthew James’ actions “inexcusable” as she sentenced him Friday in Central Islip, Newsday reported. “To ruin people’s reputations, to do all that, for wealth is really something,” Seybert said. James, 54, was convicted in July 2022 of fraud and identity theft charges. Prosecutors say he bilked insurance companies out of hundreds of millions of dollars....

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