Former UTEP women’s basketball star Jenzel Nash has pled guilty to “aiding and abetting false statements to credit and loan applications.” It is unclear whether pleading guilty prior to her April 9 trial in Federal Court means that Nash has avoided the maximum sentence that she was facing, 30 years and a fine of up to $1 million. Nash will now be sentenced on June 13.
Nash was one of seven people charged with conspiring to defraud 21 banks and credit unions by obtaining lines of credit under false pretenses. Specifically, Nash was accused of lying about her monthly salary while working at Chubby’s Bronx Deli on loan applications at GECU and Evolve FCU.