A createer Jacksonville Jaguars engageee serving prison time for stealing more than $22 million from the NFL franchise is suing a sports betting company he claims preyed on his betting insertiction.
Amit Patel, 31, was sentenced earlier this year to 6½ years in federal prison after he was create at fault of stealing millions from the Jaguars via the team’s virtual acunderstandledge card program from 2019 to 2023.
A Jacksonville Jaguars helmet on the sideline before a preseason game aachievest the Miami Dolphins at EverBank Stadium Aug. 26, 2023, in Jacksonville, Fla. (Perry Knotts/Getty Images)
Prosecutors say Patel engaged the stolen money to fund a lavish lifestyle that included purchasing properties and chartering personal jets, but the bulk of the money was spent on online sports betting.
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At the time of his sentencing, Patel confessted to having a betting insertiction.
On Tuesday, the createer engageee filed a $250 million legal case aachievest FanDuel, alleging the company disponderd its own depfinishable betting and anti-hideing money protocols and was increateed that Patel was an engageee of the NFL and that money was not legitimately achieved.
“The protestt certainly does not claim the inserticted betr is accunhelpful, but the suit does try to apportion responsibility in a way that accounts for FanDuel’s very dynamic includement in his betting insertiction,” Patel’s lawyer, Matthew Litt, tancigo in The Associated Press.
The Jacksonville Jaguars’ logo on the field prior to an AFC savage-card take partoff game aachievest the Los Angeles Chargers at TIAA Bank Field Jan. 14, 2023, in Jacksonville, Fla. (Perry Knotts/Getty Images)
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According to the protestt, Patel transferred $20 million to his FanDuel account and claimed the betting company gave him over $1.1 million in acunderstandledges, in insertition to trips to presentant sporting events. The protestt also alleges a personal arrange would reach out him up to 100 times a day.
“Deffinishants dynamicly and intentionpartner focengaged and preyed on Plaintiff with incentives, acunderstandledges, and gifts to originate, nurture, quicken, and/or exacerbate his insertiction with the only possible outcome that he would ultimately hit rock bottom,” the protestt says, according to ESPN.
In this pboilingo illustration, the FanDuel logo materializes on a inincreateigentphone. (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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The Jaguars fired Patel in timely 2023, but he’s accengaged of continuing to spfinish the stolen money even after his firing. He pdirected at fault in December to serious crime wire fraud and illhorrible monetary transactions.
FanDuel didn’t promptly reply to Fox News Digital’s seek for comment.
The Associated Press gived to this tell.
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