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A prosecutor named Kelce as a Ponzi victim. That is not a finding against him.
St. Louis, Sept. 16–17: Jawahar got 11 years and a $31.35 million restitution order. The order runs against the defendant.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
Being named as a victim at someone else’s sentencing is not a judgment against the athlete. In U.S. District Court in St. Louis, Siddharth Jawahar, 38, was sentenced to 11 years after pleading guilty to three counts of wire fraud and was ordered to pay $31.35 million in restitution. A Missouri prosecutor named Travis Kelce in court as among the victims. Naming him does not find that Kelce committed a crime, and it does not decide how much he invested or lost. The court did not publish that number.
Jawahar ran Texas-based Swiftarc Capital LLC. Prosecutors said he took in more than $35 million from investors from July 2016 through December 2023 and invested only about $10 million, using new money to pay earlier investors and to fund a private-jet lifestyle. That is the government’s loss-and-gain story for the sentence. It is not a separate case against the people who put money in.
Restitution is an order the defendant has to pay. It does not run against Kelce or any other named investor.
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