The undocumented Indian immigrant behind a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme that defrauded Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and other investors tried to marry an American citizen before he was sentenced this week to 11 years in prison, court records show.Federal prosecutors opposed Siddharth Jawahar’s request to marry Caroline Tredway, saying he may be an attempting “to obtain immigration status in the United States,” according to a Sept.4 filing in the U.S.
District Court for Eastern District of Missouri.Jawahar’s lawyer, however, insisted his client was not engaging in “marriage fraud” and said Tredway was willing to buy a $25 wedding ring and spend another $75 on an “officiant” to perform the ceremony.“The truth is, Mr.Jawahar very much hopes to stay here after his sentence and build a life with Caroline, and he plans to pursue any legal avenues to do so,” attorney Doug Passon stated his Sept.
13 response.Passon also acknowledged both Jawahar and Tredway are aware that “given this case and his current immigration status, his ability to remain here is highly unlikely.”The revelations came two days after the 38-year-old Indian national, who pleaded guilty to three counts of wire fraud in January, was sentenced to prison and ordered to repay $31 million in restitution to victims he defrauded from 2016 to 2023.It was during this proceeding at the U.S.District Court in St.
Louis that a prosecutor briefly mentioned that Kelce was one of Jawahar’s many high-profile victims.Kelce has not addressed the report publicly.NBC reached out to Tredway, who lives near Cleveland, to find out if she and Jawahar are still intending to marry.
She has not responded.“I don’t have any comment on that, and find it wholly irrelevant to the issues at hand,” Passon said in an emailed response to NBC News.But in a June 30, 2026 phone call that was monitored by the authorities, Jawahar and Tredway discussed the implications of them getting marrie...