When an advisor convicted in 2015 of bilking National Hockey League players and others of at least $30 million was sentenced in October to 17 years in prison, it provided a reminder that professional athletes are all too often the victims of unscrupulous financial advisors and scammers posing as financial advisors. BenefitsPRO's sister site ThinkAdvisor named the advisor, Phillip A. Kenner, one of the 12 worst financial advisors in America for 2015. Check out the gallery above to see 15 pro athletes who have been scammed by advisors (and by people impersonating advisors).
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Jeff Berman
Jeff joined the ThinkAdvisor team as a staff reporter in July 2019. Before joining ThinkAdvisor, he was a freelance reporter for five years, covering mainly technology, business, media and entertainment news for publications including The Miami Herald, Newsday, TheStreet.com, Long Island Press and multiple American City Business Journals websites. He also reported for several consumer electronics publications and was a technology reporter for publications of the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance. Prior to that, he worked as a reporter and editor for Consumer Electronics Daily and other Warren Communications News publications for 15 years. He graduated with an MA in journalism from New York University.
