This calendar year has not been a good one for former Bucs great Warren Sapp.

First, he got locked up briefly in a South Florida cage for allegedly slapping around his girlfriend, a charge which was later dropped.

As a result, Sapp was removed, temporarily, from his gig at the NFL Network as the suits and lawyers worked things out.

Now it appears Sapp has been a victim of a scam, which has allegedly cost him six figures.

In short, it appears Sapp had cash in an account that was seized by the feds in an investigation of a Ponzi scheme racket, so reports the Associated Press, via TBO.com.

Retired Tampa Bay Buccaneers star Warren Sapp is asking to recover more than $100,000 in a trust account left by the law firm of a man who pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi scheme.

Attorneys for Sapp filed a federal court petition Monday in Scott Rothstein’s criminal case. The attorneys say Sapp has interest in money the government is seeking in a forfeiture action.

The seven-time Pro Bowl defensive lineman had nearly $103,000 in a trust account with the law firm when it collapsed after financial fraud came to light.

The report went on to document that Sapp’s cash was in no way connected to the Ponzi scam, rather, a lawyer who was overseeing the account was up to his elbows involved in the racket.

Allegedly.