Fans expose ‘racist’ double standard between Glen Davis’ conviction for defrauding NBA players’ health plan of $159,000 dollars and Brett Favre’s escape from prosecution in the multimillion-dollar Mississippi welfare scandal

Former Boston Celtics player Glen “Big Baby” Davis found a middle ground in his sentence after being convicted of his role in defrauding an NBA player health care and advantages plan. But he could also be alone in this.

He, together with greater than 20 others, including former Bulls player Will Bynum and former New Jersey Nets shooting guard Terrence Williams, were indicted and convicted of submitting false medical claims in reference to procedures that weren’t performed for the purpose of obtaining illegal commission.

Davis’s total false claims totaled $159,000. He was found guilty of health care fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit false statements, and conspiracy to commit health care and writing fraud.

Despite a sentence of as much as 20 years behind bars, on May 9 he was sentenced to 40 months in prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $80,000 in restitution. After his release, the 2008 NBA championship winner may have to finish a financial management course and undergo mandatory drug treatment.

All things considered, his response to the final result of his case was positive. On Instagram Live, he joked that he was working on his fitness during a break from socializing.

“I’m going to be swollen, though,” said the 300-plus-pound former Boston Celtics player. “I swear to God I’ll get in shape soon. For God’s sake. The only way you may stop me from eating hamburgers is to place me in jail. This is what God says. “I’ll stop eating your hamburgers. I’ll put you in jail,” he joked.

However, the punishment given to the “Power IV: Force” actor is just not a laughing matter for everyone. “Trauma affects everyone differently… hence the ‘a’ sign,” we read a tweet suggesting that Davis was laughing in order to not cry over his situation.

Other person commented“It’s the kind of video where you can see she won’t hit him until the cell door closes.”

Elsewhere online, sports fans are divided over whether a racial double standard is why Davis’ football counterpart, Brett Favre, didn’t face an identical final result after he was caught in a Mississippi State cheating case in April 2020, two months after six people were indicted in a sprawling scheme, including the former head of the state Department of Human Services.

By 2023, the retired gridiron icon and 38 others were named as defendants in a civil lawsuit filed by the state Department of Human Services that alleged that $77 million in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds was used to line the pockets of Favre and others people.

The program was made possible by a Nineteen Nineties federal law that allowed states to provide welfare funds to nonprofit organizations as an alternative of on to families in need.

An audit found the former Green Bay Packers star received $1.1 million in TANF funds for speeches he never made in 2019. During this time, he worked along with his alma mater, the University of Southern Mississippi, to construct a brand new volleyball practice facility on campus. He was accused of knowing that $5 million for construction and one other $1.7 million for the development of an anti-seizure drug got here from misappropriated funds.

“No one ever told me, and I did not know, that the funds allocated for social benefits would go to the university or to me,” he said in a broadcast statement. “I was trying to help my alma mater USM, the public university of Mississippi, raise funds for a wellness center. My goal has been and always will be to improve the sports infrastructure at my university.”

The text messages disclosed in the lawsuit suggested otherwise. For example, in one text he wrote: “If you were to pay me, would the media even find out where it came from and how much?” He was never criminally charged and only suffered a tarnished public image.

“Racist Mississippi protects him.” sent one user X after the glaring difference in case outcomes for Farve and Davis. Someone else he wrote“They couldn’t charge Bret Favre because he’s ‘just a good old boy.’ Being the third person he said“3 and a half years and 3 years suspended for PLN 80,000. dollars seems cruel and unusual.”

Favre repaid the state $1 million, but recent court sawing is searching for additional interest of $729,790 from the Mississippi auditor.