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Report: Richard Jefferson recorded call for FBI, gets confession

Published Mar. 18, 2015 12:36 p.m. ET

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Imagine you had $2 million. Pretty cool, right? Now, imagine you've accused your former business manager of stealing all of it, and to get it back you taped a call with him for the FBI, tricking him into confessing on a taped conversation.

According to court documents obtained by TMZ, that's exactly what happened to Dallas Mavericks forward Richard Jefferson.

NBA star Richard Jefferson says he was taken for $2 million and played a key role in a covert FBI operation to catch the (alleged) bad guy and recover his cash. The 34-year-old Dallas Mavericks forward claims his former business manager Ted Kritza drew $2 million from Richard's bank credit line without permission. Jefferson says he reported the crime to the FBI which launched an investigation—an investigation that included RJ getting Kritza on the phone and secretly recording a conversation. During the phone call, RJ says Kritza "confesses to wrong-doing," and the incriminating recording is now with the feds.

Jefferson's played 13 seasons in the NBA. He's been named Player of the Week three times and competed in two straight NBA Finals. All that's neat, and he's lived a charmed life. But working with the FBI to help catch someone who stole your money? This is the very first sentence in Jefferson's obituary.

(h/t: TMZ)