Record-setting former Florida Gators’ quarterback Shane Matthews has been sentenced to serve three months in federal prison for his role in a healthcare fraud conspiracy.
Matthews became entangled in a scheme with former UF linebacker Monty Grow to receive kickbacks on prescription medications, Matthews’ attorney Miles Kinsell said in a statement to the Gainesville Sun.
Grow hired Matthews to join an independent marketing team that ultimately would bilk $20 million from the TRICARE program for military members, veterans and their families.
Matthews, 47 and a Gainesville resident, stopped working for Grow in the spring of 2015 unaware of the conspiracy, Kinsell told the Sun.