[dynachrome]

22 million must be pocket change.

[Rummyfan]

That question swept through the offices of NFL teams last week after The Athletic broke the news that Amit Patel, 31, a former employee in the finance department of the Jacksonville Jaguars, allegedly stole more than $22 million from the team over a four-year period.

$22M?! Unbelievable.

[Round Earther]

I hope Patel had a good sense of humor and bought a Jaguar.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Do they have auditors?

Are NFL teams audited by CPA firms?

[citizen]

Annnnd....where is he now?

[simpson96]

Wonder if they at least have some outside accounting firm do an annual internal audit.

This looks really bad and was entirely preventable.

[fso301]

Patel’s attorney said that the vast majority of the $22 million he stole were gambling losses;

Gambling losses is a clue.

This is to me larger than one person.

Some exceptionally rough people are involved with sports betting.

[discostu]

In accounting there’s the concept of immateriality, a quantity of money that’s just not that important. So if you’ve got a million dollar company and you find your books are off $10, it’s not worth the cost to figure out what went wrong, you go with the cash on hand and move on.

The NFL salary cap is $224 million. Plus of course all the other things a team has to pay for. And the revenues that come in to make every team profitable. So you’ve got a company here that’s cycling around half a billion dollars in and out over the course of the year. $5.5 million (what he averaged per year) just ain’t material in that. Heck $22 million straight up barely rates.

[Track9]

Would have gone a lot further as a politician.

[FoxInSocks]

Wow, a $22 million, 5-year contract. He must be a heck of a player.

[Hyman Roth]

That will buy a lot of motels.

[Robert DeLong]

The following is verbiage above the picture:

Who Is Amit Patel? All About Indian-American Accused Of Stealing $22 Million From Football Team
🌐ndtv.com

Is this a case of the immigrant doing the stealing that an American wouldn't do?

[T.B. Yoits]

He likely got away with it because what he was doing aligned with the millions his bosses were throwing around for approved but suspicious events.

They're not mad he stole $22 million. They're mad he did what only others were supposed to do and that he exposed how prevalent it is.

[Nachoman]

They should use him as a tackling dummy until the debt is paid off.

[Flavious_Maximus]

The owner of the Jaguars is a Muslim from Pakistan. Surprised an Islamist would hire a Hindu Indian. Notice how these filthy thieving foreigners are referred to as “American”. /spit

[dfwgator]

"PATEL!!?!?!"

[Deplorable American1776]

Before get TLaw as the QB, I thought it was the PLAYERS that stole the money...not someone in the office. 🤓

[NWFree]

NFL owners and much of their staff are notoriously stupid and waste tens of millions on complete flop players so why would they notice this?

[TornadoAlley3]

Ask Joe and Hunter.

[moovova]

Amit Patel was hoping to buy a chain of hotels.

[xp38]

Yeah pocket change. For big league money missing you have to go to the Federal government where billions and trillions disappear and no one seems to care.