Tim Duncan slams ex-wife, ex-financial adviser in victim's statement
Tim Duncan asked a federal court Tuesday to properly sentence his former financial adviser, who allegedly defrauded the San Antonio Spurs legend out of millions of dollars.
"My biggest fear is that you will give him a sentence that will allow him to go out into the world and tell everyone as he has continued to do since his guilty plea that he did not do anything wrong and he proves by having very little to no jail time," Duncan said of Charles Banks. "I respectfully ask you, do not do that. I promise you, that if he has any excuse to get back into this line of business, he will be out hustling and doing the same to others."
Duncan said he was embarrassed that Banks had swindled him out of money, and wanted to prevent other athletes from falling victim to a similar predicament.
"Judge Biery, you may not understand how difficult it is for me to be in the public light in this horrible way as the poster child for a dumb athlete whose financial adviser took his money," he said, adding that he experienced a "similar betrayal" by his ex-wife, who he paid off in their divorce.
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