Amit Patel to Serve 78 Months in U.S. Prison for $22 million Embezzlement
April 26, 2024
Last month, a United States judge sentenced Amit Patel to serve 78 months in prison. Patel, 31-years-old, was charged with wire fraud and engaging in an illegal monetary transaction for embezzling more than $22 million from the Jacksonville Jaguars.
“Amit Patel knowingly and wittingly created a deceptive scheme to fund a lavish lifestyle at his employer’s expense, and (his) sentencing is a warning to other scam artists,” Mark Dargis, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigations, Jacksonville, said in a statement.
The embezzlement took place between September 2019 and February 2023, when Patel was a finance manager with the Jaguars, a National Football League (NFL) team based in Jacksonville, Florida. Patel, who started working for the Jaguars in April 2018, helped prepare Jaguar’s monthly financial statements, oversaw department budgets, and was the administrator of various programs. The programs included a virtual credit card (VCC) system which the Jaguars adopted in April 2019 and for which he was the sole administrator starting in October 2019.
