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Former NBA guard Sebastian Telfair ordered to report to prison
Former NBA point guard Sebastian Telfair has been ordered to report to prison on Aug. 12 for failing to meet the terms of his supervised release in a health fraud case. The case involved former NBA players who submitted false invoices to health care providers in a scheme to defraud the NBA’s Players Health and Welfare Benefit Plan. U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni ruled on Thursday that Telfair failed to abide by court-ordered community service and failed to report to the U.S. Probation Office. A suspended sentence means the defendant receives a prison term but can avoid serving the term behind bars if they abide by the terms of the release. Telfair will spend six months in prison as a result of failing to meet the terms of his conditional release.
Sebastian Telfair: 'The Knicks lost a billion dollars not having me on the team'
Sebastian Telfair: The Knicks lost a billion dollars not having me on the team. I’d get half of a 'Linsanity' run at the Knicks—whatever they made with Jeremy, I’d have made half of that. And I was begging too. I was like, ‘Y’all, come get me.’ They were like, ‘We just had your cousin, bro.’ Yeah. No, I’m not lying. That was their response: ‘We just had your cousin.’ I was over there like, ‘Bro, y’all got Chris Duhon over there, and y’all ain’t gonna give me some burn?’
Sebastian Telfair believes basketball players get more women than athletes in any other sport. During an interview with Vlad TV, Telfair claimed he isn't sure why, but does have a theory for it. "Nobody got more chicks than the basketball players," Telfair said. "Why or how or what's — I don't know. I don't want to argue with nobody but no one got more chicks than the basketball players." "Maybe how our schedule is set up," Telfair stated. "Just how the business is set up, you got a whole lot of time for the work, that's the truth. Football, they talking about curfews and it's a different business."
Telfair was arrested on a gun possession charge in 2007 while playing for the Boston Celtics, which ultimately led Adidas to split ties with the up-and-comer. “Adidas is super bogus for that,” he said of the brand withdrawing their offer and canceling a pending $6 million check. He went on to point out that in his documentary, Adidas had allegedly talked about wanting him for his street credibility. “That deal never should’ve been taken away from me,” he stressed, before adding that it “should’ve been guaranteed.”
Sebastian Telfair, a onetime New York streetball legend who went on to play for several NBA teams, was spared prison time for participating in a scheme to defraud the league’s health care plan out of millions of dollars. Telfair, 38, was sentenced Friday to three years of probation by US District Judge Valerie Caproni in Manhattan. He was also ordered to forfeit the more than $350,000 he received from his fraudulent claims.
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In a significant reversal, the New York Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for former NBA player Sebastian Telfair, overturning his 2017 conviction for criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree. This decision, issued on Tuesday by Court of Appeals Justice Caitlin Halligan, was based on legal arguments surrounding the admissibility of evidence from Telfair’s past.
Telfair, a Brooklyn native and former basketball phenom, was arrested in 2017 after a traffic stop where police discovered multiple firearms in his vehicle. Subsequently, he was convicted and sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
Former NBA player Sebastian Telfair told a Manhattan federal judge Thursday he intends to plead guilty in pro basketball's $5 million benefits scam, after prosecutors charged him with taking $358,000 in improper reimbursements for medical and dental care.
Sebastian Telfair, Glen "Big Baby" Davis, Darius Miles were among those charged with conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud as part of what prosecutors called a "widespread scheme to defraud" the NBA health care benefit plan.
Ex-NBA player Sebastian Telfair’s sister was handed a no-prison sentence Friday for threatening her brother’s wife and child. Octavia Telfair, 35, could have done significant jail time for a threatening to kill Sebastian Telfair’s estranged wife, who testified against the former hoops star at his weapons possession trial two years ago.
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Former NBA star Sebastian Telfair was not among those who penned supportive letters for his younger sister ahead of her sentencing for threatening his ex-wife and kids. Octavia Telfair, 35, will learn her fate in Brooklyn Federal Court on July 27. On Monday, her lawyers submitted notes from her siblings and even the victim, but none from the once promising basketball star. “Unfortunately one of my brothers Sebastian Telfair was going through a tough situation and Octavia is very protective as they are only a few months apart,” her older sister Sylvia Telfair wrote to Judge I. Leo Glasser.
The sister of ex-NBA star Sebastian Telfair, who is in prison for weapons possession, pleaded guilty Friday in Brooklyn federal court to threatening the life of the former hoopster’s estranged wife and her kids. Octavia Telfair, 34, copped to one count of transmitting an interstate threat to injure a person by phone for about 50 menacing calls placed April 24, 2019, to Samantha Telfair, who was in California at the time.
One of the best basketball products to come out of New York City lost his mom and brother after they battled coronavirus. Erica Telfair, the mother of former NBA and Abraham Lincoln High School star Sebastian Telfair, died early Monday after battling the virus, although her official cause of death is unknown. She was 64. Her passing comes after her son and Sebastian’s older brother, Dan Turner, died March 28 from COVID-19. Former Lincoln head coach Dwayne “Tiny” Morton confirmed both deaths.
Stephon Marbury: I lost my cousin to this virus. My little cousin [former NBA guard] Sebastian [Telfair] has an older brother. We lost him two days ago. His mom is fighting for her life right now because of the virus. So, it’s pretty difficult in this trying time and staying on focus and trying to handle the things that I need to handle for my mom and them. They’re nervous about my aunt. … For me being here [in China], my family there, I’m constantly thinking about my mom. My mom is 78 years old. She has respiratory issues. We can’t even allow nobody to come near our home with my mom. My brother doesn’t go next to my mom. My sister doesn’t go next to my mom because we’re just so nervous about it. I’ve got an older brother that’s 60 years old. … I literally have family members that are in a space where my aunt is fighting for her life. And her son just passed away while she’s in an induced coma. She doesn’t even know. My family is just like on pins and needles with what’s going on.
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