REPORT: Jacksonville Jaguars Enter Battle With FanDuel Over $60 Million
The Jacksonville Jaguars made headlines a couple of months ago thanks to one of their employees. In a bombshell report, it was revealed that a Jaguars employee embezzled more than $60 million of the team’s money to support a sports betting habit. Now, things have escalated between the Jaguars and FanDuel. There is a disagreement as to what to do about the money that was bet.
Jacksonville Jaguars Ask FanDuel for $20 Million
In an ESPN report released earlier today, the Jaguars have been in contact with FanDuel about the funds their employee spent on FanDuel’s platform. The Jaguars asked FanDuel to return the funds that exceeded $20 million that was spent on FanDuel.
However, FanDuel seemed to have a different tune according to this report. One source with FanDuel revealed that the platform is adamantly refusing to give the money back to the Jaguars. On top of this, the source said they do not feel like that they owe the Jaguars any money whatsoever.
The Jaguars employee who did this is named Amit Patel. He was a finance manager for the team and already pleaded guilty to stealing over $20 million from the Jaguars. Patel apparently did this through a virtual credit card system over the course of 3.5 years.
