A man accused of defrauding several NFL players of more than $1 million will not have to answer to those allegations.
Mohamed Coulibaly was found dead in a swimming pool last Friday by police at a home in Harrison Township, New Jersey, according to a report from financial news outlet Barron’s.
The discovery of Coulibaly’s body occurred a little over two weeks after the outlet revealed that he had persuaded some NFL players to invest in an e-commerce website that was made to appear profitable because someone manually entered fake sales data on the site.
A family member called in a welfare check on Coulibaly last week, which led to his body being found.
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Among the NFL players ensnared in Coulibaly’s alleged scheme was former University of Georgia linebacker Tae Crowder. The Georgia native, who last was on a NFL roster in 2023 with the Tennessee Titans after being drafted by the New York Giants in 2020, says he was convinced to invest due to Coulibaly’s relationship with associates.
“I saw him hanging out with a bunch of different guys that I knew, which made me comfortable,” Crowder told “Good Morning America.”
“I would log into the store all the time to see how it worked and what was going on. I feel like the more times I logged in, the (sales) numbers kept going up.”
Crowder said he invested his entire savings account, totaling $500,000, in Coulibaly’s e-commerce business.
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Danielle Brooks
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