Ex-Vikings part owner sentenced six years in prison for $700 million cryptocurrency scam

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A former part owner of the Minnesota Vikings who defrauded a short-lived professional football league known as the Alliance of American Football in a $700 million cryptocurrency scam was sentenced Monday to over six years in prison.

Reginald Fowler, 64, of Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to six years and three months in prison and was ordered to forfeit $740 million and pay restitution of $53 million.

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Arizona businessman Reggie Fowler addresses reporters after Minnesota Vikings owner Red McCombs announced the proposed sale of the team to Fowler, Feb. 14, 2005, in Eden Prairie, Minn. Fowler, a former part owner of the Vikings who defrauded a short-lived professional football league known as the Alliance of American Football while carrying out $700 million cryptocurrency scam was sentenced Monday, June 5, 2023, to over six years in prison. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

The Alliance of American Football met a speedy end in 2019 when it ran out of money.

Prosecutors said Fowler lied to the league’s executives when he claimed to control bank accounts with tens of millions of dollars from real estate investments and government contracts that he could use to support the league.

In 2005, he tried to buy the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings, becoming a minority owner before his involvement in the team ended in 2014.

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