Kansas City Chiefs superfan Xavier Babudar, also known as “Chiefsaholic,” has been sentenced to 17 years and six months in prison after he was found guilty of stealing nearly $850,000 from 11 banks across seven states, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Western District of Missouri said in a press release.
Babudar, 30, was sentenced in the Western District of Missouri and Northern District of Oklahoma on Thursday, Sept. 5, the same day the Chiefs kick off the 2024-25 NFL season against the Baltimore Ravens. He will serve his sentences concurrently.
He was also ordered to pay $532,675 in restitution to the “victim financial institutions,” the attorney’s office added. Some of the money has been recovered but not all of it.
Babudar has to forfeit “property involved in his money laundering activity, including an autographed painting of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick L. Mahomes II that has been recovered by the FBI,” per the …