Super Bowl winner Wendell Smallwood faces 50 YEARS in prison after being slapped with felony charges

Former Super Bowl champion Wendell Smallwood is facing up to 50 years successful situation connected 3 felony charges each relating to fraud. 

The erstwhile Philadelphia Eagle was charged past period with one number of ligament fraud, 1 number of conspiracy to perpetrate ligament fraud and 1 number of conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. 

The charges look to travel from Smallwood defrauding the authorities during the coronavirus pandemic, per TMZ.

Court documents reportedly amusement taxation fraud arsenic good as Smallwood submitting mendacious claims to alleviation programs from respective businesses helium owned. 

Those claims gave him currency backmost successful 2020 and 2021 during the tallness of the pandemic. 

Smallwood's lawsuit volition beryllium heard successful tribunal adjacent month. 

Smallwood's lawyer has commented publically connected the concern to the Delaware New Journal.  

'Wendell has cooperated afloat with this investigation,' helium said. '(They'll) person much to accidental erstwhile we look successful December.' 

Smallwood was connected the Eagles for 2 seasons, including being connected the roster for the team's Super Bowl triumph implicit the Patriots successful 2018. 

After leaving Philadelphia, Smallwood spent a play each with Washington and Pittsburgh.  

After spending clip with Jacksonville, Smallwood was backmost with successful Washington for his last clip connected an NFL roster.