Former Minnesota Vikings shareholder Reginald Fowler was sentenced to 75 months in prison for providing shadow banking services to cryptocurrency exchanges and fraudulently acquiring the American Football League (AAF), fined $740 million and paid approximately $53.19 million to . Reginald Fowler established Global Trading Solutions (GTS) in February 2018 and has partnered with related companies such as Crypto Capital to handle crypto transactions. Additionally, Reginald Fowler defrauded the league during its 2018 takeover of the AAF. During negotiations to invest in AAF, Reginald Fowler misrepresented personal ownership of GTS funds that actually belonged to clients that Reginald Fowler had illegally set up to support these firms’ illicit cryptocurrency trading services, based in part on lies by Reginald Fowler, AAF in 2019 filed for bankruptcy in April.