Atlanta woman pleads guilty to stealing NBA player's identity to obtain $2.5 million loan

Annie Ford, 51, created falsified documents that she submitted to a New York lender in support of a loan application.

Annie Mildred Ford, 51, was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2018 with wire fraud and aggravated identity theft related to the scheme.An Atlanta woman has pleaded guilty to stealing an NBA player's identity in order to obtain a $2.5 million loan, the Justice Department announced on Friday.

In 2009, Ford established the Community Development Consulting Group, a non-profit organization based in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Ford is currently listed as the organization's registered agent, and she would use its financial accounts in order to perpetrate the fraud. Around November 2013, Ford forged another copy of the NBA player's signature in order to establish an agreement between the loan provider and her non-profit, which she falsely said was"doing business" on behalf of the NBA player.

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