"Mr. Patel did not use the Jaguars' VCC to fund his lifestyle, but in a horribly misguided effort to pay back previous gambling losses that utilized the Jaguars' VCC program," King said. The NFL's ...

A former financial manager for the Jacksonville Jaguars has been accused of stealing more than $22 million from the franchise through its virtual credit card program between 2019 and 2023 ...

His authority over the VCC program enabled Patel to, beginning in September 2019, allegedly make fraudulent transactions.

Patel is accused of skimming funds from the Jaguars’ virtual credit card program (VCC), of which he had oversight, either by overstating or outright fabricating transactions that were supposed ...

Specifically, Patel used his role as the administrator for the team’s virtual credit card (VCC) program to make hundreds of purchases and transactions with no legitimate business purpose.

“Mr Patel did not use the Jaguars’ VCC to fund his lifestyle, but in a horribly misguided effort to pay back previous gambling losses that utilized the Jaguars’ VCC program,” Mr King added.

Patel did not use the Jaguars’ VCC to fund his lifestyle, but in a horribly misguided effort to pay back previous gambling losses that utilized the Jaguars’ VCC program.

Patel began his role as the sole administrator of the Jaguars' VCC program in October 2019, according to the filing. Imprisoned Former Jaguars Employee Faces More Legal Troubles ...

That trip cost $42,900, and both excursions were paid for from a PayPal account where Patel had stashed money from the Jaguars' Virtual Credit Card (VCC) program, the affidavit said.

According to charging documents, Patel used his position over the VCC program to charge more than $22,220,000 in fraudulent transactions from September 2019 until he was fired in February 2023.

The filing alleges that Patel became the sole administrator in October 2019 of the Jaguars' VCC program, which is a payment method that functions like a traditional credit card account but without ...