Soap actor surrenders in social security con
They got Skills
John Marzulli of the New York Daily News reports that Tanner, who plays the character Skills on the evening soap opera “One Tree Hill,” was seen leaving federal court in Brooklyn following arraignment on an alleged Social Security number scam in which he sold fake Social Security numbers and cards.
Tanner and conspirators were caught in a police sting operation. The actor has no prior criminal record. If convicted, he would face up to five years in prison. The indictment includes two counts of fraud, as Tanner and others are alleged to have twice participated in Social Security fraud between December 2005 and July 2008.
A Social Security scam
Tanner has pled not guilty. He was released on a $250,000 bond.
Some of the Social Security numbers involved in the alleged scam had yet to be assigned, while others were traced to deceased persons or those whose numbers had been stolen. Tanner supposedly supplied 16 Social Security numbers and three bogus cards to a middleman who sold them to an undercover Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
He had a career
At the same time Tanner is alleged to have been pocketing illicit money, his career was thriving.
“It’s really sad,” said a source familiar with the investigation. “He’s got a real career.”
In addition to his work on “One Tree Hill,” Tanner, 34, once starred in a Volkswagen television commercial that became famous for the use of the song “Da Da Da.” He also played alongside Samuel L. Jackson in the 2005 film “Coach Carter.”
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wow his career is done like dat!
What I will never understand is why we keep seeing rich people do this kind of stuff. This guy is rich, he’s on a successful TV show, what’s the deal? What else does he want? It can’t be boredom alone. Selling Social Security numbers is pretty high up there, it isn’t like he’s just throwing TV’s out hotel windows (God bless Keith Moon!) he had to run an identity theft ring.
Antwon Tanner is an idiot if he really did what they’re alleging he did. I mean, I wouldn’t be so surprised if he was selling marijuana or what not, but conducting a social security number scam is downright low. What the heck led him to that idea anyway? Was it from an episode off of One Tree Hill?