Sebastian Telfair Reports to Prison for Six-Month Sentenc…

After violating the conditions of his supervised release, Sebastian Telfair has reported to prison to serve his six-month prison sentence at Fort Dix FCI in New Jersey.

As reported by TMZ, the former NBA star reported to prison this week because he violated the conditions of his supervised release following his involvement in a $4 million health card fraud scheme involving a total of 18 NBA players. When he received the sentence, he told TMZ that he was hoping to receive a pardon from Donald Trump.

“I’m mad,” he said. “I don’t wanna be doing no federal time and all that. You know, I’m a good person and done so much good shit for people and for my community. … Shouldn’t be doing no time for no community service.” He reportedly missed his community service, and he thinks the six-month sentence is “super unfair.” He said Trump needs to “holler” at him so he can stay at home with his children. He added that the issue stems from “paperwork,” and that he’s committing to writing a book while behind bars and documenting the health care fraud scandal.

Telfair was among 18 former NBA players who allegedly “engaged in a widespread scheme to defraud” the NBA’s health and benefit plan “from at least in or about 2017, up to and including at least in or about 2020.” The fraudulent claims reached approximately $3.9 million, “from which the defendants received approximately $2.5 million in fraudulent proceeds,” the indictment read.

Darius Miles, Tony Allen, Milt Palacio, Antoine Wright, Ruben Patterson, Eddie Robinson, Gregory Smith, Glen Davis, Ronald Glen Davis, Shannon Brown, Melvin Ely, and Terrence Williams were also named in the sweeping indictment. Williams was accused of being the ringleader of the scheme, recruiting other players.

Telfair previously faced time after he was charged in connection with a weapons and marijuana-related conviction in 2019. Ultimately, though, he was given supervised release and had to wear an ankle monitor for five years.

“I’m so happy to have this ankle monitor off me,” Telfair said in an interview with DJ Vlad last year. “I went into shock, and I didn’t even know I was in shock, like, I wasn’t even speaking, like I was just kind of like, ‘Oh shit.’ And then, when I woke up the next day, I just felt like I slept for 100 hours. I just felt like a new, new, new person. I kept envisioning like, ‘Well, what am I going to feel like when I get this damn ankle monitor off me?’ And now I know what it feels like.”