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Feds say fake 49ers player swindled $1.3M from womenFederal authorities claim a man posed as a San Francisco 49ers player and scammed more than two dozen women out of about $1.3 million.,The FBI arrested Daejon Love, 35, and his alleged accomplice Taylor Jamie Chan, 18, on Aug. 24 in Boise, Idaho. They were charged with conspiracy to commit wire frau...

Report: FBI arrests former West Virginia, Kentucky player Kerr KriisaFormer Kentucky basketball player Kerr Kriisa has been arrested by the FBI in connection with a fraud scheme, Kentucky Sports Radio reported on Saturday.,Kriisa, who also played guard for West Virginia, Arizona and Cincinnati during his collegiate basketball career, is connected with a multimillion-...

NFL impersonator pleads guilty on wire fraud, identity theft chargesA former University of Alabama football player on Monday pleaded guilty to committing fraud in taking millions of dollars from investors by pretending to be NFL players.,Luther Davis, 37, worked in concert with another individual, CJ Evins, 29, in donning disguises, including makeup and wigs, to imp...

Luther Davis to plead guilty in $20M fraud case for impersonating NFL players

Luther Davis, a member of Alabama's 2009 national championship team, is expected to plead guilty in a $20 million case in which he is facing multiple fraud charges for reportedly impersonating NFL players, per The Guardian and court documents acquired by AL.com.,Charges were filed in federal court a...

U.S. prosecutors outline 8 NBA games in wire fraud, conspiracy indictment

An unsealed indictment alleges current and former NBA players and Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups were part of an illegal gambling ring using "inside information to profit" from illegal betting activity, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York said Thursday...

Ex-Jags employee used stolen funds to bet on football [Update]

Update Dec. 8: The former employee’s attorney said his client has a “serious gambling addiction” and will plead guilty to wire fraud and an illegal monetary transaction...

Former USC player charged with fraud in COVID relief scheme

USC athletics may want to start getting more creative — come on, how many times can you be associated with mail fraud in three years’ time? Just two years after the athletic department was rocked by the infamous college admissions scandal in which USC administrators were found guilty of accepting br...

It’s Been a Bad Day For Curt Schilling and It’s Not Even Noon

Maybe every day is a bad day for Curt Schilling. More accurately, every day where Curt Schilling is lurking somewhere is a bad day for the rest of us, or at least has a high chance of becoming one. Because that means there’s a threat that Schilling will dive headlong in front of a camera, or onto so...

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Four Members Of One Texas Family Plead Guilty In Lucrative Masters Ticket Resale Scheme

Tickets to The Masters, held annually at Augusta National in Georgia, are notoriously difficult to come by, and prices on the secondary market are generally preposterous. Four members of one Texas family apparently seized on the arbitrage opportunities presented by this situation in order to make qu...

by Chris Thompson|Golf

|Thu Jun 20 2019

Report: Big Baller Brand Co-Founder Alan Foster Ousted Amid Suspicions About Missing $1.5 Million

According to a report from ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne and Paula Lavigne, Big Baller Brand majority owner Lonzo Ball has severed all business ties with Alan Foster—one of the company’s co-founders and longtime family friend to the Balls—after he was unable to account for $1.5 million that went missing o...

by Patrick Redford|Big Baller Brand

|Sat Mar 23 2019

New York Man Tried To Fake His Own Abduction To Avoid Super Bowl Payouts

New York state police found 60-year-old Robert Brandel on Wednesday afternoon with a rope tied around his neck, and duct tape around his hands and ankles while in the backseat of his Ford F-150 truck parked on a Niagara County road. ...

by Gabe Fernandez|Scams

|Sat Mar 02 2019

The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is This Fraudster's Shameless Office Flop

There’s a school of thought that says flopping is as much of a skill as anything else that takes place on a court or field. Subscribers to this line of thinking would argue that there’s a certain artistry to the act, which requires not only a certain brazenness but also the deceptive athletic skills...

by Tom Ley|sports highlight of the day

|Fri Feb 01 2019

Indian Police Investigating Maria Sharapova In Luxury Housing Fraud Case

Maria Sharapova is being investigated by police in India for her role in a “cheating and criminal conspiracy case,” in which a real estate company called Homestead Infrastructure, together with Sharapova, sold millions of rupees worth of units to home buyers and then disappeared, according to the As...

by Laura Wagner|Maria Sharapova

|Wed Nov 22 2017

Records Show How Miami Con Man Allegedly Tricked NBA Stars Out Of Free Shoes

Miami con man Justin Jackson and his wife Angel Agarrat were booked into Miami-Dade County jail this afternoon for the second time in three months on felony fraud charges. Jackson has a history of posing as the manager of famous artists and using his pretend platform to extract goods and favors from...

by Patrick Redford|fraud

|Wed Jul 19 2017

Wine Magnate Confesses To Defrauding Tim Duncan Out Of Millions

Charles Banks is a 49-year-old wine executive who runs Terroir Capital, an investment firm that’s put some $200 million into a variety of California wineries. Banks also invests in hotels and owns half of Mayacamas Winery, a 128-year-old winery in Napa, California. Banks met Tim Duncan in 1997 and D...

by Patrick Redford|tim duncan

|Tue Apr 04 2017

Missouri's Athletic Department Is Under NCAA Investigation For Alleged Academic Fraud

The University of Missouri Athletic Department is under investigation by the NCAA for alleged academic fraud after a former tutor revealed “widespread” cheating abetted by academic tutors. The school did not name any specific programs that were under scrutiny, but they announced that they were inves...

by Patrick Redford|missouri tigers

|Wed Nov 23 2016

Kermit Washington Indicted, Arrested For Allegedly Running Charity Fraud Scheme

Former NBA player Kermit Washington—who had a 10-year career primarily with the Lakers and Trail Blazers but is best known for brutally punching Rudy Tomjanovich in the face—was arrested Tuesday night, after being indicted for allegedly running a charity fraud scheme. According to the Department of ...

by Kevin Draper|kermit washington

|Wed May 25 2016

Former NBA All-Star Busted On "Massive Online Fraud" Charges

Police say Chris Gatling, whose 11-year NBA career saw him play for eight different teams, was the mastermind of a “massive online fraud” scheme that allegedly featured the 1997 All-Star stealing credit card numbers from people all over the country....

by Timothy Burke|police blotter

|Mon Jun 01 2015

Huge Red Wine Counterfeiting Scheme Busted In Italy

Italian cops have foiled what the Siena police chief calls "the biggest fraud ever carried out in the agricultural and food sector": a wine expert's attempt to pass off nearly a quarter-million bottles of fake Brunello di Montalcino wine....

by Albert Burneko|wine

|Wed Sep 28 2016

Browns Owner Avoids Federal Prosecution With Massive Settlement

Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, who is the CEO of a truck stop empire that committed a whole bunch of fraud, probably won't be spending any time in prison for presiding over a company that bilked customers out of tens of millions of dollars. That's because his company, Pilot Flying J, just agreed to pay ...

by Tom Ley|jimmy haslam

|Mon Jul 14 2014

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