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A former Los Angeles auctioneer has agreed to plead guilty in a cross-country art fraud scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat LOS ANGELES -- A former Los Angeles auctioneer has agreed to plead guilty in a cross-country art fraud scheme where he created fake artwork and falsely attributed the paintings to artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. The paintings ultimately wound up at the Orlando Museum of Art in Florida before they were seized by federal agents last year in a scandal that roiled the museum and led to its CEO's departure after he threatened an art expert and told her to “shut up.” Basquiat, a Neo-expressionist painter whose success came during the 1980s, lived and worked in New York before he died in 1988 at age 27 from a drug overdose. The Orlando Museum of Art scandal came in 2022 when a federal raid ended in the seizure of 25 paintings whose authenticity had been in question for...

Former NBA players Keyon Dooling and Alan Anderson have been sentenced to prison for their roles in defrauding the NBA's health and welfare plan. U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni sentenced Dooling to 30 months in prison and Anderson to 24 months in prison, per an announcement from the U.S. Attorney's Office. In October 2021, Anderson and 17 other former players were arrested for making around $4 million in  fraudulent reimbursement claims for Health care services that were never actually rendered. Anderson was accused of submitting $121,000 in fake claims for himself and recruiting others to join the scheme , which resulted in $710,000 worth of fraudulent claims. In April 2022, Dooling was arrested and added to the case. Dooling, the former vice president of the National Basketball Players Association, was accused of receiving $363,000 from fake reimbursement claims. He was also charged with facil...