Jacksonville Jaguars seek $66.6M from former exec

The communicative coming from the satellite of sports resembles a script from a movie. The erstwhile fiscal manager of 1 of the much celebrated NFL teams, Jacksonville Jaguars, Amit Patel, recovered himself astatine the halfway of a ungraded owed to embezzlement of money. 

The man, formerly liable for the team's finances, admitted to stealing much than $22 cardinal from firm cards. Of that, arsenic galore arsenic 20 cardinal ended up successful the FanDuel bookmaker's account, portion astir a cardinal was transferred to DraftKings.

At the opening of 2025, an statement was reached: the NFL volition person astir 5 cardinal dollars arsenic compensation for the funds embezzled by the erstwhile employee. Sources adjacent to the lawsuit accidental the NFL advised the bookmaker and the Jaguars to find a solution, portion the league itself was not straight involved. 

The Jacksonville Jaguars asked for a refund backmost successful aboriginal 2024, but FanDuel wanted to beryllium it was a reliable spouse to the NFL and agreed to instrumentality portion of the funds to the Jacksonville team.

In luxury and justice

Amit Patel, present 37, was sentenced to six and a fractional years successful situation successful March 2024 for fiscal fraud and amerciable transactions. In July of the aforesaid year, helium was transferred to the situation successful Duval County, and the authorities of Florida charged him with organized fraud successful the archetypal degree, which tin bring a condemnation of up to 30 years. The Jacksonville Jaguars filed a suit seeking $66.6 cardinal successful damages due to the fact that Florida instrumentality allows for triple claims successful civilian lawsuits.

In an interrogation with CNN, Patel claimed: 

"I was borrowing wealth done the team's concern card, hoping that I would beryllium capable to repay the funds with the winnings connected the bet." 

However, grounds shows that helium utilized immoderate of the wealth to unrecorded a luxurious life; backstage jets, costly trips, luxury vehicles, cryptocurrencies and watches. An further ungraded was caused by his suit against FanDuel, successful which helium demands 250 cardinal dollars; claims the institution abused his gambling addiction and ignored liable betting rules. He made implicit 1,000 payments of $25,000 each connected the level of the aforementioned bookmaker.