A former Florida football player has been indicted by a grand jury on bank fraud.
Kadeem Telfort, who played for the Gators as an offensive lineman during his freshman year in 2017, was charged with conspiracy to commit bank fraud as well as 17 counts of bank fraud, according to a press release from the U.S Attorney’s Office last Tuesday. The fraud occurred between July 1 and Oct. 31 in 2017.
While at Florida, Telfort was charged with taking part in a credit card scheme with eight other UF football players in 2017. He pleaded no contest, served two years of probation and was not reinstated to the team. He later played football for the Garden City Community College Broncbusters in Kansas and committed to the University of Alabama-Birmingham for the upcoming season.
Telfort worked with five FSU students who were members of Florida State’s Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement (C.A.R.E), a program designed to aid “traditionally underrepresented students disadvantaged by virtue of educational and socioeconomic reasons.” One of those students, Kh’lajuwon Amari Murat, is also being charged with eight counts of aggravated identity theft after he and Telfort illegally obtained credit and debit card numbers, according to the release.
The group allegedly obtained $53,000 in stolen funds, according to the press release. Telfort and the other students were indicted after an investigation by the Florida State University Police Department and the United States Secret Service.
Telfort and the students are set to go to trial on Aug. 17.
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