Sebastian Telfair said to TMZ Sports that he hopes Donald Trump would spare him from a long prison sentence this year.
After breaking the terms of his supervised release in his healthcare fraud case, the former NBA player is set to report to prison on Tuesday. However, he is hopeful that No. 45/47 will be able to get him out of it.
According to Telfair, he thinks the entire issue is “definitely some bulls***”… and he is sure that if the president hears his narrative, he will be able to avoid the six-month prison sentence that he will be starting in a few hours.
He informed TMZ on Monday :, “go check in on my story and you’re definitely going to want to pardon me. You’ll hold me accountable and want me to continue to go do good. But I did too good to being sending anybody to jail.”
Telfair was among a number of former NBA players, notably Glen “Big Baby” Davis, who were charged with operating a scam that embezzled large sums of money from the Association’s health insurance program.
He was originally given a sentence of time served plus three years of supervised release, but this summer, he was given a new sentence of six months in prison because he reportedly did not fulfill the conditions of his release.
