Former NFL player Sam Adams failed to pay wages and health care premiums for workers at his fitness clubs in Washington state, leaving one employee unable to buy Christmas presents for her children and another to incur massive medical bills after she was diagnosed with cancer, investigators say.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson said Friday that his office had charged Adams, 41, with theft and tax-fraud charges and that it would seek a sentence above the normal prison term of three to nearly five years. Among the allegations are that Adams and his business partner, Dana Lynn Sargent, failed to turn over to the state $446,000 in sales tax collected from customers.
