Former Panthers player Shaq Thompson reportedly lost half a million dollars to embezzling partner
Former Carolina Panthers player Shaq Thompson’s business partner allegedly stole more than half a million dollars from the linebacker’s trucking company, according to court documents and public records.
Shaquille Dixon, 28, faces federal charges for allegedly embezzling about $500,000 as the general manager of “Good Run Logistics,” WSOC, The Charlotte Observer’s news partner, first reported.
Thompson, the Panthers’ first-round pick in the 2015 NFL Draft and the team’s longest-tenured defensive player, started Good Run in 2023.
The 30-year-old met Dixon through their shared personal trainer and found a mutual interest in trucking, WSOC previously reported. Thompson then named Dixon the cross-country trucking company’s general manager, according to a 2024 WSOC report highlighting the veteran player’s trucking business.
Federal prosecutors do not name Thompson’s trucking company in an indictment filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, but they do detail how Dixon was in 2023 hired “to manage [the company’s] daily business operations … based on his purported experience in the trucking industry.”
Dixon previously told WSOC that Thompson “has a really soft heart” and “doesn’t like to see people struggle.”
According to the Feb. 20 indictment, from February 2023 to June 2024, Dixon “engaged in numerous unauthorized financial transactions that substantially depleted [the company’s] assets for his own benefit.”
Investigators say he disguised transactions under fraudulent labels.
“Owner draws,” he allegedly wrote. “Ask my accountant.”
He faces a combined maximum of 30 years in prison for one count of wire fraud scheme and one count of transactional money laundering.
