The San Francisco 49ers brass just wrapped up the 2024 NFL Draft and have their sites set on making — and hopefully winning — the Super Bowl to conclude the 2025 campaign.
One of their former players, who put together an impressive 16-year run in the NFL but spent his first 6 seasons with the 49ers, is focused on something very different.
Bill Romanowski — who should be a household name for anyone who followed the NFL throughout the 90’s — has gotten himself in quite the pickle when it comes to paying (or not paying) his taxes.
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The bankruptcy filing came at a pivotal moment for the Romanowskis − less than 24 hours before a scheduled hearing Tuesday in the civil case that Department of Justice lawyers brought against the couple last summer. U.S. attorneys allege that the Romanowskis used a nutrition company they founded to skirt tax obligations and now owe more than $15.5 million in back taxes.
Under federal law, filing for bankruptcy will give the Romanowskis a temporary reprieve, triggering an automatic pause in the Department of Justice’s efforts to collect on the alleged money owed.
I’s alleged the former San Francisco 49ers star and his wife — who won two Super Bowls with the organization before winning another two with the Denver Broncos — used money from their business accounts to pay for a variety of personal goods an services that broke US tax laws.
The couple allegedly used money from Nutrition53 accounts to pay for things like rent, groceries, veterinarian bills and “over 170 visits to nail salons, hair salons and day spas,” the report said, citing court records.
