{"id":71765,"date":"2026-04-15T06:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/former-alabama-star-allegedly-impersonated-nfls-penix-njoku-and-mckinney-in-20m-loan-scam\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:54:54","slug":"former-alabama-star-allegedly-impersonated-nfls-penix-njoku-and-mckinney-in-20m-loan-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/former-alabama-star-allegedly-impersonated-nfls-penix-njoku-and-mckinney-in-20m-loan-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Alabama star allegedly impersonated NFL\u2019s Penix, Njoku and McKinney in $20m loan scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luther Davis, a national champion with the Crimson Tide, is said to have worn wigs and make-up to secure fraudulent loans<\/p>\n<p>A former University of Alabama football star plans to plead guilty later this month to orchestrating an alleged scheme in which he impersonated NFL players and defrauded lenders out of nearly $20m. The alleged scam is described in detail by the US attorney for the northern district of Georgia, including depictions of the former defensive lineman donning disguises during loan closings.<\/p>\n<p>Luther Davis, a member of the Alabama team that won the 2010 national championship game, along with a partner, CJ Evins, \u201cobtained at least thirteen fraudulent loans totaling more than $19,845,000\u201d, the criminal information filing alleges. A criminal information (CI) document is filed by a US attorney when a defendant agrees to waive the constitutional right to indictment by a grand jury and instead proceed by typically entering a guilty plea; both Davis and Evins are doing so according to the court docket.<\/p>\n<p>Aliya Sports and Sure Sports did not reply to a request for comment for this article.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/15\/alabama-football-player-luther-davis-alleged-loan-scam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luther Davis, a national champion with the Crimson Tide, is said to have worn wigs and make-up to secure fraudulent loans A former University of Alabama football star plans to plead guilty later this month to orchestrating an alleged scheme in which he impersonated NFL players and defrauded lenders out of nearly $20m. The alleged &#8230; <a title=\"Former Alabama star allegedly impersonated NFL\u2019s Penix, Njoku and McKinney in $20m loan scam\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/former-alabama-star-allegedly-impersonated-nfls-penix-njoku-and-mckinney-in-20m-loan-scam\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Former Alabama star allegedly impersonated NFL\u2019s Penix, Njoku and McKinney in $20m loan scam\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}