Last Updated: October 25, 2023, 01:30 IST
ST. LOUIS: A former solid member of the reality TV present “Basketball Wives LA” was sentenced Tuesday to 4 years in prison for 15 fraud-related felonies, together with schemes related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brittish Williams, 33, of St. Louis, pleaded responsible in May to 5 federal counts of misuse of a Social Security quantity, 4 counts of financial institution fraud, three counts of creating false statements to the IRS and three counts of wire fraud. Assistant U.S. Attorney Diane Klocke mentioned the actions came about over roughly a decade, and the crimes continued even after Williams was indicted.
U.S. District Judge Henry E. Autrey additionally ordered Williams to pay restitution of $565,000.
“You knew what you were doing. You knew it was wrong and you did it anyway,” Autrey mentioned.
Federal authorities mentioned Williams illegally obtained loans meant for companies damage by the pandemic. They mentioned she additionally used false Social Security numbers to defraud banks and bank card firms, submitted pretend medical payments to an insurance coverage firm, and lied on tax returns.
Williams appeared on “Basketball Wives” in its third season in 2014, when she was engaged to Lorenzo Gordon, who performed skilled basketball abroad.
“Brittish Williams was getting paid to portray her celebrity lifestyle on ‘Basketball Wives’ when in fact she was a typical fraudster,” Jay Greenberg, particular agent in control of the FBI’s St. Louis workplace, mentioned in an announcement.
Williams, on the May listening to the place she pleaded responsible, promised that her days of crime had been behind her.
“I will not be committing any more crimes for the rest of my life,” she mentioned on the time, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
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