{"id":880648,"date":"2019-12-12T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=880648"},"modified":"2026-07-25T21:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:16:29","slug":"ex-nfl-players-charged-with-scheme-to-defraud-leagues-health-care-benefit-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=880648","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NFL players charged with scheme to defraud league&#8217;s health care benefit plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton Portis and four other former Washington Redskins are among 12 retired NFL players accused by federal prosecutors of submitting false medical claims to the league&#8217;s health care program for retired players.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the scheme involved fraudulent invoices to the NFL Player Health Reimbursement Account Plan for expensive medical &#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/dec\/12\/ex-nfl-players-charged-scheme-defraud-nfl-health-c\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/dec\/12\/ex-nfl-players-charged-scheme-defraud-nfl-health-c\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Ex-NFL players charged with scheme to defraud league&#039;s health care benefit plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clinton Portis and four other former Washington Redskins are among 12 retired NFL players accused by federal prosecutors of submitting false medical claims to the league&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-redskins","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-87-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=880648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907961,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880648\/revisions\/1907961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}