Monty Grow played linebacker for the University of Florida Gators and cornerback for a couple of NFL teams.
Two decades later, he's still playing defense — but it's no longer a game of football.
Grow, 46, started his trial Monday in Miami federal court on a slew of conspiracy, fraud and kickback charges accusing him of fleecing $20 million from a U.S. government program that provides healthcare coverage for military service members and veterans.
Prosecutors said the Tampa businessman paid kickbacks so he and other associates could score TRICARE patients for referrals to a Broward County pharmacy that was paid $40 million by the government for supplying pain, scar and other costly creams between 2014 and 2015.