Former Florida linebacker Monty Grow was convicted on federal fraud, kickback and money laundering charges Monday in Miami and faces up to 20 years in prison for running what prosecutors called a pyramid scheme designed to defraud the government insurance program that covers military veterans and their families. Grow made $20 million in less than a year from the arrangement, which involved compound prescription drugs prescribed to patients who used the government’s TRICARE insurance program, before his arrest.
Grow, 46, will be sentenced in April. But he wasn’t the only former Gator convicted for his involvement in the scheme.