New York – a Georgian entrepreneur who cheated on former NBA players Dwight Howard and Chandler Parsons from millions of dollars was sentenced to a federal prison on Thursday.
The jury in Manhattan was condemned by Calvin Darden Jr. in October. From cheating Howard – who was one of the most dominant NBA players in his main condition – out of $ 7 million in a fake scheme to buy wnba Atlanta dream.
Fifty -year -old Atlanta’s inhabitants were also found guilty of bilking $ 1 million from the former NBA attacker Chandler Parsons in a separate ice involving the development of the then NBA views by James Wiseman.
Judge Federal Court on Manhattan ordered Darden to fall $ 8 million, as well as several luxury things he received with poorly earned profits, including $ 3.7 million in Atlanta, $ 600,000 in Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lamborghini and Rolls-Roy.
The lawyers for Darden, who was not present in court when the judgment was issued, refused to comment.
Darden was allowed to leave the proceedings after giving up his right to the present and told the judge that he had suffered a concussion last week while he was in custody, according to the US lawyer for the Southern District of New York.
During the trial, Howard testified that Darden deceived him to give him $ 7 million by persuading him that it was an investment to buy a dream.
However, the eight-time All-Star and the triple NBA of the year’s defensive player acknowledged that he had learned that he was not the owner of a dream when ESPN announced that the team was sold to the investor group, which included a former dream guard of Rene Montgomery in 2021.
The prosecutors said that Darden and a sports agent also joined Parsons to send $ 1 million to help in the development of Wiseman that was developed Golden State Warriors As a second total selection in the NBA 2020 design.
But both of them did not know Wiseman and the player never agreed to be represented by the agent, as they claimed the Parson. Wiseman last played for Indiana Pacers Before the trade with Toronto Raporswho gave up at the beginning of this year.
Darden was eventually convicted of a jury in October for fraud with wires, bank fraud and money laundering fees.
Previously, he was sentenced to a year in a federal prison in New York for the release of his father, Cal Darden, a former executive in Atlanta based in United Parcel Service, in an unsuccessful offer for the purchase of Maxim.
Howard played for seven franchises after Orlando Magic Took it with selection No. 1 in the proposal from 2004. Won his lonely title NBA with Los Angeles Lakers During the season affected by pandemies 2019-20.
Parsons had a nine -year -old NBA career for Houston, Dallas, Memphis and Atlanta.
The dream was once co -hassped by the former Republican senator US Senator Kelly Defefler, but it was under pressure to sell after clash with players over her opposition to the initiatives of the racial justice league.
