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March 14, 2005
Breakfast of Champions at Texas Tech
This press release from the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas reports on the fraud conviction of Aaron Shelley, the former "sports nutritionist" at Texas Tech University.
Turns out that Mr. Shelley had set up a scam operation to line his pockets in connection with obtaining nutritional supplements for the Texas Tech football team and eventually for other Texas Tech athletes. The press release states as follows:
Shelley conspired to and carried out two schemes to defraud Texas Tech University by over-billing the athletic department for nutritional supplements provided to athletes. The first scheme involved Shelley receiving kickback payments from Muscle Tech of Lubbock, a nutritional supplement store located in Lubbock, Texas. The later scheme involved Shelley over-billing through a "shell" corporation, Performance Edge, Inc. The fraudulent, over-billed amounts from both schemes totaled $497,145.19.
"Overbilled" by half a million bucks on "nutritional supplements?" No wonder those Tech receivers have looked so fast over the past several seasons. ;^)
Mr. Shelley received a sentence of 33 months in the slammer for the scheme. Hat tip to the White Collar Crime Prof for the link to the press release.
Posted by Tom at March 14, 2005 7:05 AM |
Comments
very funny... and Texas Tech aint a bad team.
Posted by: Sports Bettor at December 27, 2005 9:48 AM
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