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Jimmy Hitchcock, 43, of Clemmons pleaded guilty to mortgage
fraud, bank bribery and money laundering conspiracy charges last
June and was sentenced on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney's Office
for the Western District of North Carolina said in a statement.
Hitchcock played for three teams, including the Carolina
Panthers, during his eight-year career in the league.
Prosecutors said Hitchcock and five other defendants defrauded
lenders of $4.5 million over 16 months using bogus checks and
other fake documents.
In addition, prosecutors said Hitchcock bribed a bank employee
to create more false documents to support the fraud. Hitchcock
made $500,000 from the crime, prosecutors said.
Hitchcock was the fourth of the defendants to be sentenced. His
46-month prison term will be followed by two years of supervised
release, the attorney's office said.
(Reporting by Curtis Skinner in San Francisco; Editing by Daniel
Wallis and Paul Tait)
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