Yasiel Puig Dealing with Jail Time For Mendacity To Feds Throughout Unlawful Playing Probe

Former MLB famous person Yasiel Puig is dealing with as much as 5 years in jail … after he agreed to plead responsible to mendacity to the feds throughout their investigation of an unlawful playing ring.

Federal prosecutors introduced the plea deal on Monday afternoon … saying the ex-Dodgers outfielder intends to make a responsible plea to at least one depend of constructing false statements at a court docket listening to later this month.

The cost, in response to the feds, carries a most sentence of 5 years behind bars.

Puig — who’s now enjoying baseball in South Korea after seven seasons within the MLB — had been accused by officers of putting bets via an unlawful playing enterprise starting again in Could 2019.

Officers say in a matter of weeks, he racked up $282,900 in playing losses — after which lower two separate $100K checks to the operators of the unlawful playing biz to repay his money owed … and proceed to make bets.

Authorities say following the funds, he went on to make an extra 899 extra bets on the websites from July 2019 to September 2019 on tennis, soccer and basketball video games.

In keeping with officers, Puig was finally interviewed over all of it — and so they say he lied via his enamel … prompting the federal cost.