Fame, fortune, and a private security detail are supposed to buy protection from crime. In a country with loose borders and catch-and-release, however, they do not. In the past two years, some of the richest athletes in America have been robbed, burgled, and fleeced by people who had no legal right to be in the United States.
\n\nFederal prosecutors recently named Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce among the victims of a $35 million Ponzi scheme run by Siddharth Jawahar, a 38-year-old Indian national the Justice Department describes as an illegal alien living in the United States since 2005. Jawahar pleaded guilty to wire fraud and was sentenced to 11 years in prison and more than $31 million in restitution. Through his firm Swiftarc Capital, Jawahar collected more than $35 million from investors between 2016 and 2023, invested only about $10 million, hid losses on a concentrated bet in Philip Morris Pakistan, and spent the rest on private jets, luxury hotels, club memberships, and apartments in Austin and New York. Other NBA players were publicly tied to the same fund.
\n\nThen there are the strong-arm robberies. On Dec. 9, 2024, while star quarterback Joe Burrow and his Cincinnati Bengals…
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