
Former NFL running back Wendell Smallwood Jr. has been charged with wire fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, court documents reveal.
Smallwood, who won a Super Bowl with the Philadelphia Eagles, is specifically accused of defrauding two federal COVID-19 relief programs— the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program and the Paycheck Protection Program—and participating in a tax fraud conspiracy by submitting false loan, tax, and business information to the federal government, per CBS News and PhillyVoice. He is said to have received tens of thousands of dollars in return.