Marcus Buckley had a decent NFL career as a linebacker who made his living from helmet-jarring collisions with running backs. His seven-year stint came mostly with the New York Giants.
Yet perhaps Buckley's biggest and most hard-nosed opponents double-teamed him the hardest — federal prosecutors. The Texas man inflated workers-compensation claims for lingering injuries that dogged him for years after he retired following the 2000 season. Buckley is now benched, spending two years in federal prison.
Insurance fraud is hardly a contact sport. Yet pro athletes can be enmeshed in scams — unwisely as perpetrators, regretfully as victims. They are the tiny minority of pro athletes, and sometimes coaches. Yet their high profile makes their fraud crimes large public spectacles in the news media. To name several sporting convicts:
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