Antwon Tanner pleads guilty in NYC scam

Published 5:00 am Monday, August 24, 2009

NEW YORK One Tree Hill actor Antwon Tanner has pleaded guilty to selling more than a dozen Social Security numbers for $10,000.

Tanner told a federal judge in Brooklyn on Friday that he was a middleman, selling numbers someone else provided. He and his lawyer didnt comment on how he got involved in the scheme.

Tanner is expected to get as much as a year in prison at his sentencing, set for Nov. 20. The 34-year-old actor was charged in April with selling 16 Social Security numbers and three bogus Social Security cards.

Tanner plays the character Skills in the CW series. Representatives for the network didnt immediately return a telephone call Saturday. He also appeared in the 2005 movie Coach Carter, starring Samuel L. Jackson .

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