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Six current and former NFL stars — including ex-Raven Ray Lewis and ex-Jets Santana Moss and Lito Sheppard — have reached a confidential settlement in their federal lawsuit against a bank they say helped scam them out of a combined $53 million.
The players had alleged in a 2013 lawsuit that BankAtlantic stepped aside while a financial management firm, Pro Sports Financial, forged their signatures and looted their paychecks.
Most of the looted millions were diverted into a since-failed Alabama casino venture, the players said in their suit, filed in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The terms of the settlement — struck between the players and defendant BB&T, which purchased BankAtlantic after the alleged casino investment fraud — were confidential, Daily Business Review reported.
Wide receiver Moss, currently a free agent, had alleged in the lawsuit that he’d been scammed out of $4.85 million.
“I heard so much growing up, ‘Pay attention to this. Pay attention to that,’ ” Moss had testified in the case. “I didn’t do it,” he said, describing to a jury how he had simply signed over his paychecks to Pro Sports Financial, which then handled his investments.
Ray Lewis said similarly: “I let [Pro Sports] pay attention to it . . . I’m paying for it now.”
The players had alleged in a 2013 lawsuit that BankAtlantic stepped aside while a financial management firm, Pro Sports Financial, forged their signatures and looted their paychecks.
Most of the looted millions were diverted into a since-failed Alabama casino venture, the players said in their suit, filed in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The terms of the settlement — struck between the players and defendant BB&T, which purchased BankAtlantic after the alleged casino investment fraud — were confidential, Daily Business Review reported.
Wide receiver Moss, currently a free agent, had alleged in the lawsuit that he’d been scammed out of $4.85 million.
“I heard so much growing up, ‘Pay attention to this. Pay attention to that,’ ” Moss had testified in the case. “I didn’t do it,” he said, describing to a jury how he had simply signed over his paychecks to Pro Sports Financial, which then handled his investments.
Ray Lewis said similarly: “I let [Pro Sports] pay attention to it . . . I’m paying for it now.”