Overview

• Telfair is set to begin a six-month sentence on Tuesday after a court revoked his supervised release in a 2021 healthcare fraud case
• He told TMZ the violation resulted from a paperwork issue and called the impending jail term “super unfair”
• The former NBA guard was originally sentenced to time served plus three years of supervised release for defrauding the league’s health plan of about $358,000
• His plea for a presidential pardon arrived hours before his scheduled surrender with no sign of White House intervention
• Telfair said he will report to prison if clemency is denied and plans to use the time to improve himself and work on a book